Bar & Bench (www.barandbench.com) 29 24. According to the learned Senior Counsel, if after the trial, the candidate is punished for the offences, stated supra, he will suffer disqualification. Acts alleged would fall under the definition of corrupt practices, which attracts disqualification under Section 8-A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951. In any event, if prosecution succeeds, he would be punished for corrupt practices and lateron, he would be disqualified. But that alone cannot be the reason to countermand or cancel the elections. He further contended that to maintain purity and for conducting free and fair elections, it does not require to rescind the instant election, without any justifiable reason and that there is no rational behind the decision taken by the Election Commission of India. 25. Referring recommendation of to contents the in Election paragraph No.25 Commission of of the India, Mr.ARL.Sundaresan, learned Senior Counsel for the petitioner in W.P.No.11978 of 2019, submitted that finding of the Election Commission that there was a inducement and allurement to electors by the candidate, political party, and their associates by distribution of money, which has been going on at a large scale and in a clandestine manner, vitiating the purity of the electoral process and disturbing the http://www.judis.nic.in