S.N.P.Singh, J.

1. The petitioner is the Pramukh of Namkun (Khijri) Pan-chayat Samiti is the district of Ranchi. He has filed this writ application for quashing Notification No. 8220 L. S. G., dated the 27th of November, 1970, purported to have been issued by the Government of Bihar under Clause (c) of Sec. 6 of the Bihar and Orissa Municipal Act, 1922. A copy of the said notification has been made Annesure 1 to the writ application. By the impugned notification a number of villages either in whole or in part have been included within the Doranda Notified Area.

2. As stated in the writ application, Namkum Panchayat Samiti consists of twenty Gram Panchayats which were constituted by various notifications of the Bihar Government in or about the year 1950. All the twenty Gram Panchayats were brought under the jurisdiction of the Namkum Block Samiti in the year 1964 when the Bihar Panchayat Samitis and Zila Pari-shads Act, 1961 hereinafter to be called "Bihar Act 6 of 1962", came into force in the district of Banchi. It is said that on the 16th of January, 1964, the first Panchayat Samiti of Namkum Block was elected and after the expiry of its term the election of office bearer