Bilal Nazki, J.

This petition has been filed by the petitioners seeking quashing of an order passed by respondent No.2 on 11th April, 2009.

2. Petitioner No.1 is a political party, petitioner No.2 is a Registered Trust, and other petitioners are citizens. Respondent No.2 passed an order dated 11th April, 2009, which reads as under:-

“In continuation of the Commission’s Order No. 3/4/ID/2009/SDR dated 6th April, 2009, the Commission directs that ‘Ration Cards’ issued on or before 28-2-2009 shall also be permitted as an additional document for establishing the identity of electors at the General Election to the House of the People in the State of Maharashtra.”

3. Earlier to it, an order was passed on 6th April, 2009. The order dated 11th April, 2009 is in addition to the one dated 6th April, 2009.

4. The grievance of the petitioners is that ration cards are not basically identity cards, and as such, ration cards should not be taken as proof of identity of a voter, as there are chances of mischief since a large number of ration cards are fake. In this case, the petitioners had also presented in the Court that some ration cards were manifestly not genuine. The learned cou