PATNA, India, Oct. 31 -- Patna High Court issued the following judgment on Oct. 9:

Heard Mr. S.B.K. Mangalam, learned counsel for the appellant, Dr. Mithilesh Kumar, learned counsel for Respondent no.14, AAG-7, learned counsel for the State and Mr. Mukesh Kumar Thakur, learned counsel for the Election Authority.

2. The present appeal is directed against the judgment and order dated 14.07.2025 passed in C.W.J.C. No. 18663 of 2024, whereby and where under, the writ court was pleased to dismissed the writ petition with cost of Rs.20,000/- against the appellant.

3. Initially the appellant who was the writ petitioner challenged the order dated 29.10.2024/20.11.2024 passed by the Respondent No.2 and letter dated 22.11.2024 issued under the signature of the Respondent no.3 by which respondent no.2 has been pleased to direct for counting of votes of the election which was held on 13.12.2019 for constitution of Managing Committee of the Respondent Society in compliance of the order dated 22.04.2024 passed in Civil Appeal No. 5312 of 2024 but without supplying any copy of the report of the Respondent No.5.

4. The appellant further sought relief from the writ court that respondent no.5 be directed to produce on record his report, and on production the same may be quashed by the writ court for a declaration that if on consideration of all materials available with Respondent society regarding grant of membership to 392 applicants if the Administrator of Society, District Cooperative Society and the Returning Officer-cumBlock Development Officer, Goraul had published the voter list of 1547 voters of the Respondent Society.

5. The facts of the case reveals that on 15.11.2019 (Annexure P/5 to the writ petition), a complaint was filed before the State Election Authority regarding the manner in which the voter-list was prepared by the authority.

6. The State Election Authority vide order dated 16.11.2019 directed the Block Development Officer, Goraul, Vaishali to consider the objections regarding updation of voterlist.

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