Judgment-

Hegde,

( 1 ) THESE are two appeals under S. 116-A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, (in short the Act) from the decision of the high court of Mysore in Election Petitions Nos. 3 and 6 of 1967. These petitions were tried together and decided by a common judgment. A good portion of the evidence led in the case is common to both the petitions. Therefore we shall proceed to deal with these appeals together.

( 2 ) ON 13/01/1967, notifications were issued calling for the election of one member for the Lok Sabha from the Koppal constituency as well as eight members to the Mysore Assembly from the eight assembly constituencies included. in that Parliamentary constituency. One of those assembly constituencies was the Yelburga constituency in the District of Raichur. The last date for presenting the nominations was 19/01/1967. The scrutiny of the nominations took place on 21/01/1967 and the poll was held on 19/02/1967. Both in the Koppal Lok Sabha constituency as well as in the Yelburga assembly constituency, the main contest was between the congress candidates and the candidates of Lok Seva Sangh. The appellant in Civil No. 980 of 1968 was the candidate of 1. . S. S. fo