Wanchoo, C.J.—This is an application by Nisar Ahmad under Art. 226 of the Constitution of India. The applicant stood as a candidate for election from Ward No. 8 to the Municipality of Jodhpur. Haqiquat-ullah, opposite party, was a rival candidate for the same ward. The dates for filing nominations were February 21 and 22, 1951 and the date for scrutiny was February 23. The applicant put in his nomination on February 22. On February 23 an objection was raised to the applicants nomination by Haqiquatullah. This objection was rejected on the same day but the Officer-in-charge Elections gave detailed reasons for the rejection by his order dated February 24, 1951.

2. Thereafter Haqiquatullah made an appeal against the order accepting the applicants nomination to the Additional Commissioner who accepted the appeal on the 7th of March 1951 and held that the nomination of the petitioner was bad and rejected his nomination paper. The applicant made an application for review before the Additional Commissioner on the ground that he had no jurisdiction to interfere with the order of the Officer-in-charge of Elections with respect to nominations but the review application was rejected. Thereafte

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