ORDER :

T. Rajani, J.

1. This application is filed seeking to insert Paragraph 8(a) to (d) after Paragraph 8 in the election petition and for consequential amendments.

2. The grounds, on which the said amendment is sought for to the election petition, are as follows:

As per Section 33 of the Representation of People Act, 1951 (for short, "the Act"), a nomination paper complete in the prescribed form, signed by a candidate and by an elector of the constituency as proposer, should be delivered to the returning officer within the prescribed period. A candidate has to file an affidavit alongwith his nomination paper as prescribed in Form 26. The 1st respondent has deliberately filed a false affidavit in Form 26 by not disclosing the criminal case pending against him in CC No. 370 of 2012 and the charges were also framed as on the day of filing his nomination. As per Section 33(A) of the Act, it is incumbent upon every candidate, who is contesting election, to give information about his assets, criminal antecedents, and other affairs. The petitioner has suppressed the material information resulting in disinformation and misinformation to the voters. The 1st respondent, who is the returned c