RAKESH KUMAR JAIN, J.

1. The petitioner is a practicing Advocate at Hisar who has preferred this petition to challenge the order dated 31.03.2018 passed by respondent No. 2 (Returning Officer of District Bar Association, Hisar) by which she has been informed that she is not eligible to cast her vote in the forthcoming elections for having been enrolled as an Advocate with the Bar Council of Himachal Pradesh vide enrolment No. HIM/69/1985.

2. The brief facts of this case are that the petitioner, after obtaining the Degree in Law from the Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla in the year 1985, got herself enrolled as an Advocate with the Bar Council of Himachal Pradesh, having enrolment No. HIM/69/1985. After her marriage in the year 1993, the petitioner has settled at Hisar and has started her legal practice at the District Courts, Hisar after becoming the member of the District Bar Association. It is alleged that she has been casting her vote in all the previous elections of the office bearers of the District Bar Association but in the forthcoming elections, which are scheduled to be held on 06.04.2018, she has filed her nomination papers to contest for the post of Vice-Presi