{"id":46627,"date":"2024-01-11T15:33:03","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T15:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/pti-files-contempt-plea-in-phc-against-ecp-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2024-01-11T15:33:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T15:33:03","slug":"pti-files-contempt-plea-in-phc-against-ecp-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/pti-files-contempt-plea-in-phc-against-ecp-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"PTI files contempt plea in PHC against ECP | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) filed a contempt plea in the Peshawar High Court (PHC) against the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The plea by the party comes after ECP’s delay in issuing the party certificate.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The party has made the\u00a0Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja, secretary election commission, and members of the ECP respondents in the petition, which comes a day after the high court returned the electoral symbol of ‘bat’ to PTI and nullified the electoral watchdog’s earlier decision.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The petition stated that “this action by the ECP is considered contempt of court, hindering PTI’s regular electoral process, as evident from the court’s explicit instructions”.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Yesterday the PHC\u00a0declared<\/a> \u201cillegal\u201d the ECP’s decision to revoke the PTI\u2019s \u2018bat\u2019 electoral symbol and reject its intra-party polls.<\/p>\n

In the short order, the PHC said that the ECP order was \u201cillegal, without any lawful authority and of no legal effect\u201d. The court also instructed the ECP to publish the certificate submitted by PTI after its internal polls on the commission’s website.<\/p>\n

Moreover, it affirmed PTI’s entitlement to the election symbol under sections 215 and 217, along with other applicable provisions of the Election Act, 2017, and Election Rules, 2017.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n