2013 ELECTIONS: SC accepts petition for hearing

The petition is also seeking a court injunction for fresh elections and criminal action against members of the ECP

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has accepted a retired judge’s petition for cancelling last year’s general elections on the grounds that it was tainted and deeply flawed. A three-member bench, headed by Chief Justice Nasirul Mulk, will begin hearing the petition filed by former SC judge Mahmood Akhtar Shahid Siddiqui on October 29. The petition is also seeking a court injunction for fresh elections and criminal action against members of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP). The court has also listed another petition, filed by former interior minister Mian Zahid Sarfraz, against the May 11 polls the same day. Siddiqui, a one-time judge of SC, has called for fresh elections and criminal action against members of the ECP. The former SC judge, retired in October 2011, was among the judges ousted on November 3, 2007, by former military ruler Pervez Musharraf.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 25^th, 2014.