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ASHUTOSH KUMAR
Century Businees Private Limited – Appellant
Versus
Chief Electoral Officer – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
Heard Mr. S.D. Sanjay, learned senior counsel assisted by Mr. Raju Giri, learned counsel for the petitioner and Mr. Siddharth Prasad, learned counsel for the Chief Electoral Officer, Bihar (respondent no. 1)
2. The present writ petition has been filed for a direction to the respondents to allow the petitioner, which is a private registered company, registered under the Indian Companies Act, 1956, to put up 950 hoarding at different sites in the State of Bihar including Unipoles, BQS and Wall Wraps etc., on private properties as part of election campaign.
3. The petitioner claims to have been engaged by a political party, namely, Bhartiya Janta Party for putting up such hoardings.
4. The necessity for filing this writ petition arose when the authorities concerned did not give any categorical reply to the representation/letter by the petitioner seeking approval from the Chief Electoral Officer, Bihar for putting up the hoardings with the permission of the owners of the properties as mandated under the Defacement of Property Act, 1987.
5. Mr. S.D. Sanjay, learned senior counsel for the petitioner has also brought to the attention of this Court that the District Electoral Officer
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