JUDGMENT

These two appeals are being disposed of by one judgment since common questions of law and fact are involved and both the appeals arise out of one judgment passed by the learned Single Bench of this Court in two writ petitions. The undisputed facts of the case are that elections to the Noorpur Gram Panchayat were held in the year 2009. The appellants Lechu Miah and Md. Hachan Ali were candidates of the Indian National Congress (for short INC) in the said elections. They were both elected as members of the Gram Panchayat, Noorpur. Md. Kabir Hussain (Respondent No. 10), Md. Ranu Miah (Respondent No. 11), Md. Safik Ali (Respondent No. 12) and Mustt. Asma Begum (Respondent No. 13) were also elected as members of the gram panchayat as INC candidates. Md. Mahammad Ali (Respondent No. 7), Smti. Tara Kumari Singha (Respondent No. 8) and Smti Rajia Begum (Respondent No. 9) were elected as the representatives of the rival political party. Thereafter Md. Kabir Hussain and Md. Ranu Miah were elected as Pradhan and Upa-Pradhan of the Panchayat.

2. Both the appellants and respondents 7, 8 and 9 issued notice under Section 23(2) of the Tripura Panchayats Act, 1993 moving