1. O.A.No.94 and 95 of 2017 have been filed by the applicant, who is the 1st respondent the Election Petition, seeking to strike off paragraphs 9, 10, 11(a) to 11(m), 12 to 32 in the Election Petition and also to reject the Election Petition No.3 of 2016.

2. Election Petition No.3 of 2016 has been filed by the respondent herein against the applicant and 23 others, inter alia, seeking the following relief’s:

i. declare the election of the applicant to No.006 Avadi Assembly Constituency in Tamil Nadu on 19.5.2016 as illegal and void.

ii. declare the respondent as being elected to the No.006 Avadi Assembly Constituency in Tamil Nadu.

iii. direct the applicant to pay the cost of the petition to the respondent.

3.1. Succinctly put, the case of the applicant is as under:

The applicant was duly elected through a fair and proper electoral process by the people of Avadi constituency under Two Leaves Symbol. The respondent having lost the election has made vague and unsubstantiated allegations on the basis of entirely unacceptable source of information, thrown wild and imaginary statements in the Election Petition. The Election Petition filed challenging an election based on the alleged co