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4. In the peculiar facts and circumstances, as noted earlier, the period of limitation has expired, but the petitioner has, for the reasons of acute urgency, approached this Court within a week of declaration of the result of election and it prima facie appears that the State Election Commission is taking technical pleas not to reveal the correct votes recorded in the voting machine. We are of the prima facie opinion that extraordinary writ jurisdiction of this Court for judicial review of any administrative act is a part of the basic structure of the Constitution and an extraordinary and exceptional circumstance impinging upon process of free and fair election and saving of the democratic process at the grassroots level, particularly in the institutions of local self-government, calls for its exercise.