( 1 ) THIS is an appeal under Section 116-A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 (hereinafter called the Act against the order of the Election Tribunal, Chhatarpur, dated 16-7-1958 by which the appellant's election petition under Section 81 of the Act calling in question the election of the respondents 1; and 2 from the Khurai Rural Constituency to the Slate Legislative Assembly was dismissed.

( 2 ) THE constituency in this case is a double-member constituency, one of the seats being reserved for a member of the Scheduled Castes. The polling took place on 9-3-1957 and the respondents 1 and 2, who secured the largest number of votes, were declared elected to the general and the reserved seat respectively. On 25-4-1957, the appellant, who contested the election for the general seat, filed his election petition alleging that the respondent 1, and others acting for the respondents 1 and 2, had committed a number of corrupt practices detailed in schedules A and B and that the respondents 1 and 2, who suppressed or imperfectly disclosed their election expenses detailed in schedule C, incurred expenditure in excess of the scale prescribed for the election under Section