appellant committed corrupt practice of bribery under Section 123 (1) of the RP Act. (5) The appellant and her election agent made extensive appeals to the religious symbol of cow and calf and thereby committed corrupt practice under Section 123 (3) of the RP Act. (6) Yashpal Kapur and some other persons with his consent hired and procured a number of vehicles for the free conveyance of electors to the polling stations and thereby committed corrupt practice under Section 123 (5) of the RP Act. (7) The appellant and her election agent incurred or authorised expenditure in contravention of Section 77 of the RP Act and thereby committed corrupt practice under Section 123 (6) of the RP Act. 161. The appellant in her written statement denied the various allegations levelled against her and pleaded that Yashpal Kapur resigned from his post on January 13, 1971 and his resignation was accepted with effect from January 14, 1971. Notification dated January 25, 1971 was issued by the Prime Minister’s Secretariat in that connection. It was added that P.N. Haksar, then Secretary to the Prime Minister, told Yashpal Kapur on the same on which the resignation was tendered that it was accepted and that format orders would follow. Yashpal Kapur became the election agent of the appellant on February 4, 1971. During the period he was a gazetted officer in the Government of India, he did not do any work in furtherance of the appellant’s election prospects. Regarding the use of planes and helicopters of the Air Force, the appellant admitted that on February 1, 1971 she went by an Indian Air Force plane from Delhi to Lucknow from where she went by car to Rae Bareli addressing meetings enroute. It was further admitted that on February 24, 1971 the appellant went by helicopter of the Indian Air Force to Gonda on regular party work and that from there she went by car to Lucknow, Unnao and Rae Bareli addressing public meetings in several constituencies besides her own. The appellant referred to the Pillai Committee Report and the Office Memoranda issued by the Government of India and asserted that the aforesaid flights were made by her in accordance with them. It was added that under the rules, bills for those flights were to be paid by the All India Congress Committee and most of them had already been paid. According to the appellant, neither she nor did her election agent solicit, require or order the use of Air Force planes and the Government of India provided the planes as part of their normal duty. The appellant denied having obtained the assistance of the District Magistrate and the Superintendent of Police Rae Bareli as also that of the Home Secretary, U.P. Government for any of the purposes mentioned in the petition. The appellant in this context referred to the instructions issued by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India. She pleaded that arrangements for posting of police on the routes which she followed and the arrangements of rostrums were made by the State government itself in compliance with those instructions. In regard to the loudspeakers, she pleaded that those were arranged by the