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Dinesh Kumar Singh vs Union of India

Patna High Court · Decided on 9 December 2016 · Citation: (2017) 1 BLJud 127

HON’BLE JUDGES
Mr. Hemant Gupta, ACJ. and Mr. Vikash Jain, J.
ACTS & SECTIONS REFERRED
Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 171(3), Article 226
RESULT
Dismissed
CASE NUMBER
Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.9530 of 2015
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Mr. Hemant Gupta, A.C.J. (Oral) - The petitioner has invoked the writ jurisdiction of this Court to fill up 24 vacancies of the legislative council from the members of local bodies/municipalities as envisaged under Article 171(3) of the Constitution of India by amending qualification prescribed under Section 6 of the Representation of Peoples Act, 1951.

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We do not find that the writ petition for seeking amendment to the Act prescribing qualification for the members of the Legislative Council is maintainable as there cannot be any direction to the Legislature to frame a law and in a particular manner

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The writ application is, thus, dismissed.