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The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed an application filed by the three petitioners of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the elections fraud case asking the court to direct the Electoral Commission to provide them with the collation and pink sheets. The petitioners, the NPP presidential candidate, Nana Akufo Addo, his running mate, Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia and the party�s National Chairman, Jake Obetsebi Lamptey, had prayed the court to allow them get access to photocopies of results in 275 collation centres as well as make copies of results recorded in 26,002 polling stations. But the panel of judges hearing the case said the NPP�s application was �pre-mature.� The panel further stated that since the petitioners were represented in the EC�s strong room as we well as on the ground on Election Day, they should have copies of the collation sheets and the pink sheets. The Court however granted the petitioners an application for leave to amend their petition within two days. The Court also ordered that the new amendments will also be affected by the ruling on the application for the provision of further and better particulars. The Supreme Court also refused the application by the NDC to order the petitioners to include them in the provision of further and better particulars describing their arguments as �superfluous and remote to the rule of the court.� The application for leave to serve interrogatories on petitioners brought on behalf of President John Mahama by his legal team was withdrawn and struck out by the court. The Supreme Court thus ruled on four different applications filed by petitioners and respondents in the case relating to petition challenging the results of the 2012 Presidential elections.