SC seeks details of ECP’s re-poll order for Sarai Naurang Tehsil
Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial, during a hearing on the re-poll order of the Election Commission of Pakistan for the Sarai Naurang Tehsil, on Thursday said that constitutional and legal institutions should be independent and sovereign.
Last month, the ECP had ordered re-polling at six polling stations in Lakki Marwat’s Sarai Naurang where women were barred from casting votes during the first phase of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s local body elections.
The Supreme Court had sought details on the re-poll order from the ECP. During the hearing of the case, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Senator Kamran Murtaza’s counsel Latif Khosa said that a re-poll was ordered in Sarai Naurang after the situation deteriorated during the election of the chairperson.
However, the lawyer informed the apex court that no votes were cast at only one polling station in the tehsil and voting at others was held as per schedule.
Justice Mansoor Ali Shah, who was part of the three-member bench hearing the case, inquired about the incident of firing outside the women’s polling station which resulted in one person being killed.
