JUDGMENT :

1. A Division Bench of this Court was hearing these Writ Petitions, the subject matters of which pertain to the Gram Panchayat Elections. The orders impugned in these petitions are passed by the Returning Officer for Bhose Gram Panchayat whereby the nomination forms of the petitioners to contest the Gram Panchayat elections stand rejected. The prayers in the petitions are, inter-alia, for issuance of a writ of mandamus for setting aside the orders of the Returning Officer rejecting the nomination forms of the petitioners and for a further direction that the petitioners be allowed to contest the Gram Panchayat elections from their respective wards. There is a further substantive prayer for writ of mandamus to be issued under Article 226 of the Constitution to direct the State Election Commission to cancel the election programme and for issuance of a fresh election programme. A prayer is also made for direction on the official respondents to take appropriate action, civil or criminal, against the respondents 7 to 10 (complainants) for producing false and fabricated certificates leading to the rejection of the petitioners’ nomination forms. Pending the hearing of the petitio