Bombay High Court refuses to interfere in ward formation, says elections cannot be derailed 

On Friday, September 19, 2025, the Aurangabad Bank of the Supreme Court of Bombay rejected a group of petitions that challenged the final notifications of ward formation for the elections of Zillad and Panchayat Samiti, opened by several people from all over Maharashtra. The Court decided that the intervention at this stage would remove the election process of the Supreme Court already directed to completion within four months.

The petitions were opened against Maharashtra (through the Rural Development Department), State Election Commission, Department commission members, regional collectors, sub -department officials, collections, Zilla Parishads and Panchayat Samitis.

Justice Manish Pitale and YG Khobragade, Hingoli, Ahilian (formerly Ahmednagar), Nanded, Beed and Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar made a joint decision.

The bench observed that Article 243-O of the Constitution brought a bar open to judicial intervention on issues related to the formation of wards and the allocation of seats. Judges have explained that such challenges can only be fun in the rare cases where no objection is invited or a hearing, and even after the election process started.

“This court will hate a gentle intervention in the final notification in the light of the constitutional bar to intervene in the light of the Constitutional bar, which implements the judicial authority in accordance with Article 226 of the Indian Constitution, S

The petitions claimed that the villages were arbitrarily included and excluded when they were creating wards for the elections of Zillad Parishad and Panchayat Samiti, and claimed that the objections opened by the residents were ignored or rejected without appropriate mind practice.

However, the court found that the required process was followed. Draft notifications were published, objections were invited, hearings were held and detailed reasons were recorded before the ward borders were finalized.

The counter, “the appropriate hearing was held and objections were discussed for the reasons recorded in writing and the final notification was published,” he said. Judges added that the disagreements of the villages on attachment or detachment are not in written transactions, but only through the election petitions, “completely controversial real questions”.

The court also referred to the order of the Supreme Court on May 6, 2025 at the Rahul Ramesh Wagh / Maharashtra State, which should be concluded in the state within four months and the OBC reservations should be restored to the pre -2012222 framework. Emphasizing the urgency of the surveys, the Council said, “Unless the petitions cannot file a compelling case for intervention, this court will not be inclined to show any tolerance to the local organs in Maharashtra because it means removing the election process.”

Emphasizing the larger constitutional duty of local self -government, the court said, “The Supreme Court emphasized the need to keep the elections in democracy, so that the local self -government was considered under the constitutional plan.”

With the rejection of all petitions, the State Election Commission is now free to continue to declare and carry out the elections of Zillad and Panchayat Samiti, which has been delayed for a long time in Maharashtra.