K.VENKATARAMAN, J.

The present application has been filed seeking to strike out the pleadings in the election petition as envisaged under Order VI Rule 16 C.P.C.

2. For the sake of convenience, the applicant herein is referred as - Returned Candidate -, the first respondent is referred as -election petitioner -and the other respondents are referred in their respective position.

3. The election petitioner filed the election petition to declare the election of the Returned Candidate as null and void. Several grounds have been raised in the election petition. In the present application, the Returned Candidate seeks to eschew the pleadings in paragraphs 2, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 62 and 63 of the election petition and also paragraphs 33 and 34 of the election petition together with video footage recorded on 24.3.2011, 6.4.2011 and 7.4.2011 concerning police inaction against alleged illegal acts of distributrion of money to the voters, without any material particulars.

4. The reasons set out in the application are:-

(a) Irrelevant materials have been stated for the sole purpose of carrying out velification campaign to embarrass the Returned Candidate and tarnish the imag