In The Matter Of Application For A Writ Of Quo Warranto Against Chairman

Present: Lyall Grant J. 1980.

In the Matter of an Application for a Writ of quo warranto
against Chairman, Village Committee of Tellippalai.

Village communities-Election of committee members-Basis of caste- Irregularity-Ordinance No. 9 of 1924, s. 18.

Where, in proceedings tinder the Village Communities Ordinance for the election of a village committee, the inhabitants of a sub-division resolved to allot members on a basis of caste,-

Held, that the proceedings were irregular and the election of members void.

THIS was an application for a writ of quo warranto against the chairman and nine members of the village committee of Tellippalai subdivision. The petitioner, who was a resident of the

subdivision, objected to the election of the respondents as members In the Matter of the village committee on the ground that the nine seats of set apart for the subdivision were allotted according to caste. It was alleged that such a basis of division was unconstitutional,

Gnanaprakasam (with Tiyagaraja), in support.

H. V. Perera (with Subramaniam), contra.

February 3, 1930. LYALL GRANT J.-

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