Application regarding election and their revision

Application regarding election and their revision (1) The election of a person as Pradhan or Up-Pradhan or as member of a Gram Panchayat shall not be called in question except by an application presented to such authority within such time and in such manner as may be prescribed, on the ground:- (a) that this election has not been free election by reason that the corrupt practice of bribery or undue influence has extensively prevailed at the election; or (b) that the result of the election has been materially affected- (i) by the acceptance or rejection of any nomination in improper manner; or (ii) by gross failure to comply with the provisions of this Act or the rules framed there under. (2) The following shall be deemed to be corrupt practice of bribery or undue influence for the purpose of this Act- (a) bribery, namely:- (i) a person to stand or not to stand or to withdraw from being a candidate at an election; or (ii) with objective of inducing any elector to vote or refrain voting of an election direct or indirect or to any person for the thing that:- (1) a person for having so stood or not stood, for having withdrawn his candidature; (2) an elector for having voted as refrained from voting for this purposes: to propose or promise of any seat or reward on the port of a candidate is any other person what so ever with the connivance as served. (b) Undue influence, that is to say, any direct or indirect interference or attempt to interfere on the part of a candidate or of any other person with the connivance of the candidate with the free exercise of any electoral right: Provided that without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of this clause any such person as is referred to therein who- (i) threatens any candidate, or any elector, or any person in whom a candidate or an elector is interested with injury of any kind including social ostracism and ex-communication or expulsion from any caste or community ; or (ii) induces or attempts to induce a candidate or an elector to believe that he or any person in whom he is interested will become or will, be rendered an object of divine displeasure or