By the Court.—This bunch of writ petitions impugns four set of grievances, namely (i) illegal addition or deletion of the names of voters in electoral rolls, (ii) shifting or non-shifting of polling booths, (iii) rejection/acceptance of nomination papers and (iv) non-issuance/cancellation of caste certificates required for filing nomination papers in respect of reserved constituencies. Thus these writ petitions in bunch are being disposed of by this common order.

2. As regards the first set of grievance relating to addition or deletion of the names in voters’ lists, learned counsel for petitioners, Sri C.B. Pandey, referred to the judgment of 5 Judges Bench in the case of Indrajit Barua and others v. Election Commission of India and others, AIR 1986 SC 103. Para 12 of the aforesaid judgment which appears to have a direct bearing on this issue reads as:

“12. From the materials placed by the parties and the Election Commission, we have come to the conclusion that the Election Commission did not give directions contrary to the requirements of Section 16 of the Act and the revision of the 1979 electoral rolls could not be undertaken for reasons beyond the control of the Electio