Suits to include the whole claim

(1) Every suits instituted before a Circle Panchayat shall include the whole of the claim which the plaintiff is entitled to make in respect of the matter in dispute, but he may relinquish any portion of his claim in order to bring the suit within the jurisdiction of the Circle Panchayat. (2) If a plaintiff omits to sue in respect of or relinquishes any portion of it, he shall not afterwards sue in respect of the portions so omitted or relinquished. (1)An Election Petition against the return of a candidate at the Panchayat Election shall be presented to the Officer appointed for the purpose under Rule 59 within 30 days after the day on which the result of the election in question is announced by the Returning Officer, under Rule 51 and shall specify the ground or grounds on which the election of the respondent is questioned, and shall contain a summary of the circumstances alleged to justify the election being questioned on such grounds provided that no such petition shall be entertained, unless it is accompanied by a receipt for an amount of Rs. 100.00 by way of security having been deposited in Treasury as Revenue deposit. (2) The petition may be presented by a person who was candidate at the election. Explanation Any person who filed a nomination paper at the election whether such nomination paper was accepted or rejected shall be deemed to be a candidate at the election. (3) The applicant may claim one or more of the following reliefs in his application namely (i) That the election be set aside, or (ii) That the election be declared void, or (iii) That the applicant be declared duly elected, (iv) That he may be awarded costs of the petition. (4) The person whose election is questioned and, where the petition claims that the petitioner or any other candidate shall be declared elected in the room and place of such person, every successful candidate, shall be made a respondent to the application. (5) The petitioner shall enclose with the petition, copies of the petition and of its enclosures equal to the number of respondents. (6) Every respondent may give evidence to prove that any person in respect of whom a claim is made that such person be declared elected, should not be declared so elected on the same ground or grounds on which the election should have been questioned, if he has been elected.