( 1 ) BY means of the present election petition, the petitioner has challenged the election to Legislative Assembly Constituency No. Dehradun-14 and to quash the entire election process of the respondent nos. 7 to 19 on the ground of invalidity of their nomination forms and to declare the petitioner to have been elected to the said election unopposed.

( 2 ) THE petitioner has further challenged the election of the respondent No. 7 as chairman of the Uttrakhand Legislative Assembly to be declared as illegal.

( 3 ) ADMITTEDLY, the election to the State legislative Assembly was notified in the Official Gazette on 25th January, 2007. The petitioner has alleged that in the legislative assembly constituency No. 14-Dehradun, the respondent No. 7 Harbans Kapoor was declared to have been elected after the counting of votes on 27-2-2007. Disappointed, the petitioner has sent the present petition to this Court by speed post.

( 4 ) ON receipt of the election petition to this Court, the following defects were noted by the Stamp Reporter on the back of the petition :-

1]. This petition has been received by post. 2]. The petitioner is not present himself before the Registrar General. 3]. This peti

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