LAHORE: The Appellate Tribunal of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Sunday dismissed the appeal of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) activist Sanam Javaid against the rejection of her nomination papers.
The tribunal upheld the Returning Officer’s (RO) decision to reject jailed Sanam’s nomination papers filed from two National Assembly seats and one provincial assembly seat – NA-120, NA-119 and PP-150.
Judge Tariq Nadeem announced the verdict on her appeals.
On 19 December, Sanam submitted her nomination papers announcing that she would contest the election against Maryam Nawaz from Lahore Provincial Assembly, PP-150.
Sanam is among dozens of PTI workers and leaders who are in custody in connection with the May 9 riots that erupted after the arrest of PTI founder Imran Khan in a graft case.
She has been accused in several cases, including the attack on the Corps Commander House in Lahore and setting fire to police vehicles in the Cantonment area during violent protests earlier this year.
On the other hand, the tribunal reserved its decision on an appeal filed by Nadeem Sherwani against the acceptance of nomination papers of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Senior Vice President Maryam Nawaz by the returning officer from NA-119.
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The decision was reserved after the petitioner submitted additional documents in support of his appeal.
Meanwhile, the LHC Appellate Tribunal set aside the RO’s decision to reject the nomination papers of PTI leader Hammad Azhar and his father Mian Azhar from PP-171 due to non-appearance of their minions and petitioners.
Their minions and petitioners appeared before the tribunal where Justice Ahmed Nadeem Arshad announced the verdict in their favour.
However, Justice Tariq Nadeem dismissed Azhar’s appeal against the rejection of his papers from NA-129 constituency.
