( 1 ) THIS petition is by K. C. Sharma who challenges before us an order made by the election Tribunal, Chhatarpur on 7th September, 1957 in election petition No. 270 of 1957. By that order the Election Tribunal partly allowed an application for amendment of particulars in the election petition filed by the present petitioner. By the present petition the petitioner challenges that portion of the order by which amendments sought to be introduced were disallowed.

( 2 ) THE election petition contained allegations of corrupt practices indulged by the returned candidate. It purported to set out particulars of the corrupt practices in three schedules which are numbered, A, B and C. By the application for amendment the petitioner sought to introduce details of the corrupt practices in all the three schedules. Some of these amendments were allowed and the others rejected. It is not necessary to refer to the various amendments which are quite numerous and are not capable of being briefly summarised. We have, however, examined, the original schedules, the proposed amendments and the orders thereon by the election Tribunal carefully. Having considered these amendments and the reasons therefor

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