A.N.Bhandari, J.

1. These two appeals under clause 10 of the Letters Patent raise a common question of law, viz. whether a member of a municipal committee, who is removed from office on the ground that he has flagrantly abused his position as a member, is entitled to be informed of the reasons of his proposed removal and to be afforded an opportunity of tendering an explanation.

2. The first appeal has been presented by one Shri. Harnam Singh Modi who was elected a member of the Municipal Committee of Ferozepore in the year 1955 and President of the said Municipal Committee in the same year. A meeting of the Municipal Committee was held on 12-7-1956 for the election of the two Vice-President. As only two candidates, viz, Shri Lachhman Das Kochar and Bawa Paritam Singh had been proposed for election, all that was to be determined was a to who was to be the senior and who was to be the junior Vice-President. After the ballot papers were taken out f the ballot box, the petitioner counted them and declared that eight votes had been tendered for Lachhman Das and six for Paritam Singh. Lachhman Das was accordingly declared to be the senir Vice-Preside and Bawa Paritam Singh as th