This is an appeal against the order of the Election Tribunal, Madurai II, setting aside the election of the appellant to the seat for the single member Parliamentary constituency of Krishnagiri on an election petition filed by the respondent (E. P. No. 149 of 1957). For the said seat there were five Candidates out of whom one withdrew. The appellant secured the largest number of votes and on 8th March, 1957, he was declared as the returned candidate. The respondent, M. G. Natesa Chettiar, an elector for the Krishnagiri Assembly Constituency which is one of the constituencies comprised in the Krishnagiri Parliamentary constituency, filed an election petition out of which this appeal arises praying that the election of the appellant be declared void and one G. D. Naidu who had secured the largest number of votes after the appellant be declared duly elected. The election of the appellant was sought to be set aside on several grounds which included charges of corrupt practices committed by the appellant. For the disposal of this appeal it is not necessary to mention all of them because the Election Tribunal found that excepting the corrupt practice to which we shall r