MODI, J.

( 1 ) THIS is a petition by Tekchand under Article 226 of the Constitution praying for a writ of certiorari in connection with the rejection of his nomination paper.

( 2 ) THE petitioner is a resident of Karanpur which is a municipality under the rajasthan Town Municipalities Act, 1951, 23 of 1951 (hereinafter referred to as the Rajasthan Act ). The case of the petitioner is that he stood as a candidate for the municipal elections of the Karanpur municipality, which were scheduled to be held on 5-12-1955, and filed his nomination paper from Ward No. 3 for that purpose. Opposite parties 1 to 3 also filed their nomination papers from the same ward. On the day fixed for the scrutiny of the nomination papers, opposite party 1 banwarilal objected to the nomination paper of the petitioner on certain grounds which are not material for the purposes of the present application. The Returning officer who is opposite party 4 accepted this objection and rejected the nomination paper of the petitioner. Consequently, the petitioner has come forward with this petition and he prays that his nomination paper was wrongly rejected by the Returning Officer, and, therefore we should q