Section 116(3) in The Jammu and Kashmir Representation of the People Act, 1957
(3)If the application is granted,-(a)the petitioner shall be ordered to pay the costs of the respondents theretofore incurred or such petition thereof as the High Court may think fit;(b)the High Court shall direct that the notice of withdrawal shall be published in the Government Gazette and in such other manner as it may specify and thereupon the notice shall be published accordingly;(c)a person who might himself have been a petitioner may, within fourteen days of such publication, apply to be substituted as petitioner in place of the party withdrawing, and upon compliance with the conditions, if any, as to security, shall be entitled to be so substituted and to continue the proceedings upon such terms as the High Court may deem fit.]
