Adarsh Kumar Goel, J. - C.M. No. 10152 of 2002 has been filed under Section 151 of the Code of Civil Procedure for recalling order dated 20.11.2001 passed by a Division Bench of this Court in C.W.P. No. 17874 of 2001.

2. Before dealing with the said application, it is necessary to mention brief background preceding the filing of the present application.

3. A writ petition was filed for issuance of a direction to prepare fresh voters list of each of the wards and to divide wards as per Section 8 of the Punjab Municipal Corporation Act, 1976 (for short, the Act).

4. It was stated in the writ petition filed on 8.11.2001 that the petitioners were prospective candidates for Municipal elections to be held for Amritsar Municipal Corporation in May, 2002 and while earlier voters list was prepared in the year 1996, thereafter there was sea change in the number of voters; number of voters had gone up from six lacs to more than eight lacs; some voters have died, some have shifted from one place to another. It was further stated that there were 60 wards in the city and though Section 8 required that the city should be divided in such a way that population of each ward is, as far as pos