ASHOK BHAN,J.:-

1. Can a recount of the votes in an election of a Gram Panchayat held under the Haryana Panchayati Raj Act, 1994 (hereinafter referred to as the Haryana Act, 1994) read with the Haryana Panchayati Raj Election Rules, 1994 (hereinafter referred to as the Haryana Rules, 1994) and the Punjab Panchayati Raj Act, 1994 (hereinafter referred to as the Punjab Act, 1994) and the Punjab Panchayat Election Rules, 1994 (hereinafter referred as to the Punjab Rules, 1994) be granted only on the asking of the election petitioner without there being adequate averments in the pleadings and in the absence of any contemporaneous evidence to substantiate the allegations made in the petition, is the important question of law which calls for determination in this writ petition.

2. This judgment shall dispose of Civil Writ Petitions Nos. 5690, 6541, 7270, 7665, 9871, 10058, 10610 and 12267, all of 1995, under the Haryana Act, 1994, and Civil Writ Petitions Nos. 5862, 6234 and 6532, all of 1995, under the Punjab Act, 1994.

3. The provisions under the Haryana Act, 1994 and the Punjab Act, 1994 being slightly different, these two sets of petitions shall be disposed of under two headi