ISLAMABAD (DL News) – The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notices to the Punjab inspector general of police, chief secretary and advocate general while hearing the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) contempt petition filed for providing level playing field in the general elections 2024.
A three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa and including Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar and Justice Musarrat Hilali is hearing the PTI petition.
The CJP asked PTI counsel Latif Khosa to file appeals against rejection of nomination papers in the appellate tribunals when he complained of highhandedness of authorities.
Advocate Khosa submitted that when the party candidates reached returning officers’ office to submit their nomination papers, police sealed the commissioners’ offices.
Moreover, the returning officers were not giving the candidates copies of their decisions regarding rejection of nomination papers. How the candidates could move the tribunal without the copy of the decision, he added.
Meanwhile, the PTI lawyers submitted additional documents containing a list of 668 top leaders’ names whose nomination papers have been rejected.
According to the documents, nomination papers of around 2,000 PTI-backed candidates were rejected. Apart from that, nomination papers of 56 candidates were snatched and PTI candidates’ proposers and seconders were arrested.
