2-year immunity from no-confidence motion begins from the election of the first Sarpanch, not from when a vacancy is filled by a new Sarpanch: Bombay High Court

The Bombay High Court recently delivered a significant judgment regarding the Maharashtra Village Panchayats Act, 1958, specifically addressing the immunity period for Sarpanch (village head) against a No Confidence Motion. The Court clarified that the immunity of two years provided to a Sarpanch under the 4th proviso of Section 35(3) of the Act applies from the date of the first election to the post of Sarpanch and not from the…