JUDGMENT :

1. Issue notice to the respondents. Learned AGP waives service of notice for respondent nos.1 to 3. Contesting respondent no.10 appeared on caveat and waives service of notice.

2. Civil Application for amendment is allowed. Amendment be carried out forthwith.

3. Considering the points involved in the petition, the matter is heard finally at the admission stage.

4. Rule. Rule is made returnable forthwith and heard finally by the consent of the parties.

5. The petitioner was the Sarpanch of the Village Panchayat. She has been removed from the post of Sarpanch by a no-confidence motion passed on 22.12.2023 in an extraordinary meeting convened on the notice of the members of the Village Panchayat for no confidence. Being aggrieved thereby, she had filed an application before the District Collector on various grounds. The District Collector rejected her petition; hence, the petitioner approached this Court.

6. The petitioner has assailed the no-confidence motion on the following grounds :

(i) The resolution of the no-confidence motion was not moved for voting.

(ii) The meeting of no confidence was held without granting the petitioner at least three days' notice.

(iii) Rule 17 of the B