( 1 ) BY this order I propose to dispose of the preliminary objection raised in I. A. No. I of 1990 on behalf of respondent No. 1 (returned candidate) to the maintainability of the petition. It would be appropriate to mention that although election petitioner's reply to the said application came on records on 19-11-1990, he had filed earlier I. A. Nos. II, III, IV and V of 1990 and his counsel, Shri S. P. Shrivastava, pressed the prayer for leave to amend the election petition. It may be pertinent to note also that in the instant petition, election of respondent No. 1 for M. P. Vidhan Sabha Constituency No. 11, Ater, has been challenged. He was declared elected on 28-2-1990 having secured 36, 427 votes. Petitioner secured 16, 274 votes and was placed next to him. Other candidates contesting the election secured votes ranging between 51 and 7, 403. They have been impleaded as respondents 2 to 13.

( 2 ) ON 19-11-1990, Shri Shinde produced copies of the election-petition and annexures thereof which were furnished to him in Court on 7-9-1990 and submitted that the deficiencies in the copies served be noted as that was necessary for disposal of the contention raised in I.