THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE T. VINOD KUMAR AND THE HON’BLE SMT. JUSTICE P. SREE SUDHA CIVIL MISCELLANEOUS APPEAL No.296 of 2022 JUDGMENT: (Per Hon’ble Smt Justice P. Sree Sudha This Civil Miscellaneous Appeal is filed aggrieved by the order passed in Election O.P. No. 2 of 2020 on the file of the Election Tribunal-cum-Chief Judge, City Civil Court, Hyderabad (for short ‘the trial Court’), filed under Section 71 to 80 of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Act, 1955 (hereinafter referred to as ‘Act’) r/w the A.P. Municipal Corporations (Conduct of Election of Members) Rules, 2005 (hereinafter referred as ‘Rules’) for declaring the respondent No.4 as not eligible to contest as ward member/corporator at Ward No. 77, Jambagh Division, as per Section 21-B of GHMC Act, 1955; also to declare the election of respondent No.4 as null and void in view of Section 79(2)(d) of the GHMC Act, 1955 with a consequential direction to respondent Nos.1 to 3 to recount the total votes polled at ward No.77 in the presence of appellant and respondent No.4.

2. The Appellant herein is the petitioner in the aforesaid Election O.P. No.2 of 2020 filed under Section 71 to 80 of Act, 1955.

Case of the Appellant:

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