https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=197510 Under the Bombay Provincial Municipal Corporations Act, the term "Judge" was read as a judicial authority belonging to a class of judges, not a persona designata, so election petitions were to be tried by a court. The statutory scheme treated an election petition as an application for limitation purposes, and Section 435 linked the relevant chapter to Sections 5, 12 and 14 of the Limitation Act. On that construction, delay in filing an election petition could be condoned under Section 5 unless expressly excluded, reflecting a legislative intent to decide election challenges on their merits rather than on technical default. en-us Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 09 Jan 2018 12:12:10 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=197510 Under the Bombay Provincial Municipal Corporations Act, the term "Judge" was read as a judicial authority belonging to a class of judges, not a persona designata, so election petitions were to be tried by a court. The statutory scheme treated an election petition as an application for limitation purposes, and Section 435 linked the relevant chapter to Sections 5, 12 and 14 of the Limitation Act. On that construction, delay in filing an election petition could be condoned under Section 5 unless expressly excluded, reflecting a legislative intent to decide election challenges on their merits rather than on technical default. Case-Laws Companies Law Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=197510