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Aggrieved person.-Locus standi ofa person to challenge the order on an election petition, passed by the election tribunal stands on a different pedestal than that of public interest litigation. It is implicit in the exercise of the extraordinary jurisdiction that the relief asked for must be one to enforce a legal right. The meaning ofthe expression 'person aggrieved' may vary according to the context of the statute and the facts of the case, nevertheless, normally 'personal aggrieved must be a man who has suffered a legal grievance, a man against whom a decision has been pronounced, which has wrongfully deprived him ofsomething or wrongfully refused him something, or wrongfully affected his title to something. In the instant case no decision against the petitioner had been pronounced and he was not deprived of anything. He wa~not a candidate in the election. The petitioner did not appear at the trial ofthe election petition although he claimed to be an election agent of the returned candidate and woke up for the first time by filing this writ petition. Therefore,the petitioner was not a person aggrieved to maintain the writ petition. Bhushan Ramlal Kashyap v. S.D.O.Janjgir, 1998 (2) MPLJ 710.