The Lahore High Court has announced it reserved judgment on the petitions filed against the decision of the election Appellate Tribunal, and rejected the appeals of former PTI chairman Imran Khan, Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Fawad Chaudhry, Hammad Azhar, Sanam Javed, Chaudhry Parvez Elahi and others.
The PTI leaders, among 60 election candidates, had submitted petitions in the LHC against the rejection of their nomination papers.
The court had summoned the lawyers for presenting arguments. Today was the last day to file petitions against the decisions of the election tribunals. The court had reserved its verdict on more than 60 petitions, including Imran Khan, Shah Mahmood, Parvez Elahi and others.
Dismissing the appeals, a three-member bench of the LHC, headed by Justice Ali Baqar Najafi, upheld the decision to reject the nomination papers. Shah Mahmood had challenged the rejection of his nomination from NA-150, NA-151 and PP-218
The application against Fawad Chaudhry’s rejection of nomination papers from NA-60 and NA-61 was also dismissed. The court also rejected the petition against the rejection of nomination papers of his wife, Hiba Fawad.
Moreover, the LHC also upheld the decision to reject Sanam Javed's nomination papers from NA-119 and NA-120.
Sanam Javed had also challenged the move of rejecting her nomination papers from PP-150.
