Bombay High Court Allows Petitions Challenging Rejection of Nomination for Nominated Councillors in Municipal Corporation — Holds That Rejection on Ground of Non-Payment of Property Tax Is Invalid When Tax Is Not Due or Paid by Tenant. The court ruled that the requirement under Section 10(1)(b) of the Maharashtra Municipal Corporations Act, 1949, for a candidate to be a 'registered voter' in the municipal area is satisfied if the candidate's name appears in the electoral roll, and that the disqualification under Section 16(1)(i) for arrears of municipal tax applies only to taxes due from the candidate personally, not from a tenant....
The petitioners, Abhijit Deshmukh, Kachru Ghodke, Hemlata Mugdiya, and Narendra Trivedi, filed writ petitions challenging the rejection of their nomination papers for the office of nominated councillo...
