1. The writ petitioner is the elected member of the Kerala Legislature from the Chadayamangalam Constituency, Kottarakkara Taluk, Quilon District; and seeks to vacate the order whereby the Election Tribunal, Quilon has rejected his objection to a witness being examined in the proceedings before the Tribunal. The election was held on February 1, 1960, and the writ petitioner then succeeded, in defeating Abdul Majeed the first respondent to this petition. The unsuccessful candidate has subsequently filed an election petition seeking to set aside the petitioner's election and his being declared the duly elected, under S.101 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951. The petition had been published in the Kerala Gazette of April 26, 1960, and the Election Tribunal, Quilon, the 2nd respondent to this writ petition, been directed to adjudicate according to law. One of the grounds taken in the aforesaid election petition is that persons below twenty-one had voted for the writ petitioner, claiming to have attained that age on January 1, 1959. The list of such persons is Annexure III to the election petition and mentions 315 such voters. The aforesaid number is material beca