While considering the PIL, Bombay High Court division bench granted leave to add Sarpanch, Upsarpanch and Secretary of Gram Manchayat Mahagaon (Kasba) as party respondents.
The Madhya Pradesh High Court has disposed of a PIL seeking criminal prosecution against the sarpanch of a gram panchayat, directing the petitioner to approach the Collector of Jabalpur for the same.
The bench of Justices U.U. Lalit and Vineet Saran wants to go into the legal details and also to inspect the constitution of the state committee which looked into this, but the court also assured Kumar that his election would not be affected by the pendency of the matter.