Elections aftermath: Order on Sassui’s plea restrained

Chief Justice Maqbool Baqar restrains the tribunal from passing any final order until April 15.

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) has restrained the election tribunal in Hyderabad from passing any order on a plea to record witnesses’ testimonies on the alleged rigging in the PS-85 constituency. Pakistan Peoples Party’s losing candidate, Sassui Palijo, had gone to the court after she lost the seat to Syed Ameer Haider Shah. Later, she moved a miscellaneous application pleading to call witnesses to record their evidence but the court dismissed her plea. In the high court, she pleaded a suspension of the tribunal’s order. Chief Justice Maqbool Baqar restrained the tribunal from passing any final order until April 15.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 2^nd, 2014.