K.S.Tiwana, J.

1. The petitioners who are members of Gram Panchayat Bangaon, tehsil Fatehabad, district Hissar, have filed this writ petition under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution of India for quashing Notification No. 57622-A published in the Haryana Government Gazette Extra- ordinary on September 17, 1973, copy Annexure E issued by the respondent No. 1, State of Haryana through Secretory to Government Haryana, Development and Panchayat Department, superseding the Gram Panchayat of village Bangaon.

2. The case of the petitioners is that they and respondents Nos. 7 and 8 were elected as members of the Gram Panchayat in the year 1971. Petitioner No. 1 is the Sarpanch of the Gram Panchayat. The petitioners have alleged that they opposed Shri Dalbir Singh now a Deputy Minister in the Central Government in his election for membership of the Parliament in the last general elections as they belonged to the opposition. Ram Lal, the out-going Sarpanch, had not delivered the proper accounts to the new sarpanch and a complaint made by the new Panchayat led to the audit of the Panchayat accounts, which revealed misappropriation of a large sum of money by the ex- Sarpanch. Res