Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India], December 6 (ANI): The Himachal Pradesh High Court has quashed the recent amendment to the State Panchayati Raj (Election) Rules, 1994, and ordered fresh delimitation of wards for the Shimla Zila Parishad, holding that the changes were arbitrary and violated constitutional provisions regarding equal representation.

A Division Bench of Justices Vivek Singh Thakur and Romesh Verma on Friday struck down the amended Rule 9(2), noting that the modification, which replaced the Gram Sabha area with the Panchayat Samiti area as the unit of delimitation, created vast disparities in population among wards.

The court observed that the amended delimitation orders resulted in constituencies ranging from around 6,300 population in Dodra Kawar to more than 37,000 in Ko

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