(1.) THE Order dated 21. 07. 2006 passed by the State Government dissolving the 3rd respondent city Municipal Council, K. G. F. , Kolar, in exercise of the powers conferred Under Section 316 of the Karnataka Municipalities Act, 1964 (for short the Act') is challenged in both these writ petitions.
(2.) AS the facts and circumstances of both these petitions are common, they care clubbed together, heard and disposed of by this common order. However, for the sake of convenience, the facts in W. P. No. 10159/2006 are referred to.
(3.) THE petitioners' were elected as Councillors to the 3rd respondent Municipal Council, in the elections held during March 2001. The 2nd petitioner was elected as the President of the municipal Council. The first meeting of the Council was held on 29. 12. 2001 and its term was to end in December 2006.