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Power to withdraw and transfer petitions.- Any authority empowered in this behalf by the Government 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; and upon such transfer, that prescribed authority shall proceed with the trial from the stage at which it was withdrawn: Provided that such authority may, if it thinks fit, recall and re-examine any of the witnesses already examined.