SC halts re-polling in Daska NA-75

ISLAMABAD (92 News) - The Supreme Court on Thursday halted the re-polling in Sialkot’s NA-75 scheduled for April 10.

A three-judge bench of the apex court, headed by Justice Umar Ata Bandial, restrained the election commission from holding re-polling in the constituency on April 10. The court instructed the ECP not to put the entire electoral process on hold and but just delay re-polling.

The court has, however, said that it is upholding its judgement on holding re-polling in the constituency. On March 19, the top court had rejected PTI’s plea to suspend the ECP’s re-polling orders.

The PTI challenged the ECP's decision to order re-polling at all polling stations in NA-75. The petition was moved by PTI candidate from Daska Ali Asjad Malhi.

Earlier, the Supreme Court o Pakistan on Friday again rejected the plea seeking suspension of verdict on the Daska re-pollin.

Hearing the case, Justice Muneeb Akhtar remarked that even suspension of re-poll verdict would not benefit the petitioner.

Justice Umar Atta Bandial remarked that it was better to go with the order. "The court ordered re-poll because 20 presiding officers were missing until morning," he stated.

He observed that there was tension in urban area of the town and detailed verdict of the Election Commission of Pakistan has great significance.

Justice Sajjad Ali Shah said that how the Punjab IGP and chief secretary cane be oblivious when the election was being conducted.