Resignation

(1) A panch may submit the resignation of his office to the prescribed authority. (2) No registration tendered by a panch shall be valid unless it has been accepted by the prescribed authority. (1) If at any election any polling returning of BallotBox, as the case may be, is unlawfully taken out of the custody of the Presiding Officer, or in any way tampered with or either accidentally or intentionally destroyed or lost, the election to which the return or the Ballot Box as the case may be relates shall be void. (2) Whenever Polling at any Polling place shall become void under sub-rule 1 of the Returning Officer shall as soon as may be after the act or event causing such avoidance has come to his knowledge, report the matter to the Deputy Commissioner and shall with his previous approval, appoint the date for the taking of a fresh poll at such place and fix the hours during which the poll will be taken. (3) In every such case as aforesaid the Returning Officer shall take a fresh Poll at such Polling place as aforesaid the day so appointed by him, and shall notify the date so appointed and hours of polling so fixed by him in such a manner as may be specified by him and the provisions of these rules of election shall apply to every such fresh poll as they apply to the original poll.