D. Basu, J.

This Rule is directed against the election held on February 26, 1964, of the Commissioners of the Siliguri Municipality, on the basis of a final electoral roll prepared in pursuance of the decision contained in the order of the Registering Authority dated October 21, 1960, which is at annex. G-2 of the petition.

2. The Petitioners, who were originally five in number, brought this petition under Order 1, Rule 8 of the CPC alleging that 240 other persons were affected by the impugned proceedings and in similar circumstances. Subsequently, some of these persons have come upon the record as added Petitioners so that the number of Petitioners at the hearing has gone up to 24. The Petitioners' case is that they are all residents of Ward No. 17 of the Municipality--in the area called Milanpalli--and are thus entitled to be enrolled in the electoral roll of that Ward. In fact, their names were duly included in the preliminary electoral roll which was published sometime in September, 1963, under the West Bengal Commissioners of Municipalities (First General Election) Order, 1963. But the Petitioners' names were excluded from the final electoral roll published on November