Dismissed
Somnath Kashinath Shirke and Anr. v. the State of Maharashtra and Ors.
Bombay HCWP/3430/2016
Case brief
AI extract
What is this about?
The High Court dismissed a writ petition challenging an election notification. The court held that the election process had already commenced and the petitioner had an efficacious alternate remedy of filing an election petition, thus declining to entertain the writ petition.
What did the court decide?
The writ petition is dismissed as the election process has commenced and an election petition is an efficacious alternate remedy.