The Chief Justice.-In this petition the petitioner prays for the issue of a writ of certiorari quashing the order of the Election Tribunal of North Arcot at Vellore made in Election Petition No. 56 of 1952, on 5th November, 1952. By that order the Election Tribunal dismissed the election petition which had been filed by the petitioner to set aside the election of the second respondent to the House of the people from the Krishnagiri Parliamentary Constituency.

The necessary facts are not in dispute. The petitioner was a candidate for election to the House of the people from the Krishnagiri Parliamentary Constituency. He filed his nomination paper on 21st November, 1951, in the prescribed form. As against Column 7 in the form, namely, Constituency in the electoral roll of which the name of the candidate is included," he made the following entry:

"Graduate’s Constituency (Salem District, Dharmapuri Taluk, Lalingam Panchayat.) Column 8 is for the serial number of the candidate in the Electoral Roll of the Constituency in which his name is included. The petitioner did not give any serial number. On the date on which the petitioner filed his nomination paper his name was not included in th

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