- PTI makes ECP chairman get together in contempt case.
- Social gathering seeks speedy implementation of SC order.
- SC had dominated PTI eligible for reserved seats allocation.
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Monday filed a contempt of court docket petition in opposition to the Election Fee of Pakistan (ECP) for non-implementation of the Supreme Court docket’s orders within the reserved seats case.
Members of the nation’s high electoral physique together with chairman Sikandar Sultan Raja have been made events within the petition filed by PTI chief and senior lawyer Salman Akram Raja.
In keeping with the plea, the ECP must be ordered to implement the decision instantly and motion must be taken in opposition to the fee’s members.
Citing the decision, the petition mentioned: “The aforesaid Judgment and clarifications/orders go away little doubt in any way that the PTI is entitled to reserved seats proportionate to the seats within the Nationwide Meeting and the provincial assemblies gained by it in accordance with the Judgment dated 12 July 2024.
“That the ECP has but to behave upon the judgment […] and full the method of election girls and non-Muslims on reserved seats within the NA in addition to provincial assemblies.”
On July 12, the Supreme Court docket dominated that the PTI is eligible for the allocation of reserved seats, paving the way in which for the get together to return to parliament.
Justice Mansoor Ali Shah of the SC’s full bench introduced the 8-5 majority verdict, nullifying the Peshawar Excessive Court docket’s (PHC) order whereby it had upheld the ECP’s determination denying the reserved seats to the PTI-backed Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC).
The PTI candidates didn’t contest the polls on a single image, forcing them to hitch arms with the SIC, however that would not get the get together the reserved seats because the ECP dominated in opposition to them.
In its determination, the court docket declared that the dearth or denial of an election image doesn’t in any method have an effect on the constitutional or authorized rights of a political get together to take part in an election, whether or not common or by, and to subject candidates and that the fee is underneath a constitutional obligation to use all statutory provisions accordingly.
“The PTI was and is a political get together, which secured common seats within the nationwide and provincial assemblies within the common elections of 2024,” learn the decision.
In keeping with the decision, the PHC’s judgment dated March 25 is put aside. “The order of the ECP dated March 1 is said to be extremely vires to the Structure, with out lawful authority, and of no authorized impact,” it mentioned.
The highest court docket remarked that the Imran Khan-founded PTI, as a political get together, has a authorized and constitutional proper to reserved seats.