Power of Deputy Commissioner to withdraw and transfer petitions.

The Deputy Commissioner of the district concerned may, at any stage after notice to parties and for reasons to be recorded, withdraw any election petition pending before a prescribed authority and transfer it for trial to another prescribed authority within his district; and upon such transfer, that prescribed authority shall proceed with the trial from the stage at which it was withdrawn; Provided that such authority may, if it thinks fit, recall and re-examine any of the witnesses already examined.