(1.) -Heard Shri Ashok Khare, senior advocate on behalf of the petitioner, Shri Shashi Nandan, senior advocate on behalf of respondents.
(2.) COUNSEL for the parties agree that the writ petition be disposed of at this stage itself without calling for further affidavits.
(3.) ON the pleadings and the statement on record, the Election Tribunal by means of 14.5.2007 has declared that the packets containing valid as well as invalid ballot papers may be opened. This order of the 14.5.2007 has been challenged in the present writ petition.