candidate (i.e. the appellant herein) but additional facts were also laid out 2 1951 Act 3 4- Kshetrigao Assembly Constituency. Civil Appeal No. ____ of 2024 Page 2 of 30therein. As a result, the election petitioner filed an application seeking leave to file a replication, which came to be allowed by the impugned order of the High Court. Impugned Order 4. The High Court vide impugned order allowed the application seeking leave to file subsequent pleading while, inter alia, observing as follows: “15. The petitioner has filed the election petition, inter alia, on the ground that the first respondent has failed to disclose the details – status of his bank accounts with respective balances in Form 26. The first respondent has also failed to disclose the details of liability and also the car bearing DL4CNB4776 owned by him in Form 26. 16. On a reading of the election petition, it is seen that the petitioner has also taken other grounds. However, in reply to the ground for non-disclosure of