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Raj HC Halts Delimitation of Three Municipal Wards
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
|June 13, 2025
The Proposed Redrawing of Boundaries for Taranagar (Churu), Deogarh (Rajsamand), and Badi Sadri (Chittorgarh) Was Held Legally Unsustainable
JODHPUR: The Rajasthan high court has stayed the ongoing delimitation exercise for municipal wards in Taranagar (Churu), Deogarh (Rajsamand), and Badi Sadri (Chittorgarh), observing that the proposed redrawing of ward boundaries is not legally sustainable in the absence of a fresh census or any statutory precondition under Section 3 of the Rajasthan Municipalities Act, 2009.
A single bench of Justice Dinesh Mehta passed the order on Wednesday while hearing a batch of writ petitions filed by elected ward members and residents from the three towns. The order was made public on Thursday.
The petitioners had challenged the very initiation of the delimitation process, arguing that no revenue village were added to or removed from the municipal limits, and no new census had taken place since 2011—the year on which the last ward delimitation was based.
This story is from the June 13, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Rajasthan.
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