newspaper having circulation in the district, to be submitted within seven days from the date of publication of notice. Whereas, the fourth respondent without issuing any notice whatsoever, as required under Rule 4 of the rules, proposed to divide 26 Wards of Badvel Municipality into 35 Wards and affixed the same in the notice board of Municipal office. To the surprise of these petitioners, they came to know that the fifth respondent addressed a letter dated 11.10.2019 to the fourth respondent requesting him to delete the village of these petitioners from the proposed Ward No.27 and delete Chennampalli Village from the proposed Ward No.26 and include the same in the proposed Ward No.27. If the fourth respondent had adhered to the procedure envisaged under the provisions of the Act and the Rules, the petitioners would have been in a position to submit their objections and suggestions and the fourth respondent failed to adhere to the mandatory provisions envisaged under the Act and the Rules, thereby, the petitioners lost an opportunity of submission of their objections for inclusion of their village either in Ward No.19 or 20 instead of Ward No.27, and that, on this ground alone, delimitation notification is liable to be set-aside.
