Islamabad: Lahore High Court (LHC) has rejected the petition seeking nullification of senate polls.
Declaring the petition non maintainable, the court remarked that Election Commission (EC) should be resorted to on this matter.
Justice Shahid Kareem conducted the hearing of the case on the request of a local lawyer Rana Ilm-ud-Din on Tuesday.
Election Commission Pakistan (ECP), Federal Government and others were made respondents in the petition. Senate polls have been challenged in this plea.
According to the petitioner worst horse trading has taken place in senate polls and he alleged that parliamentarians have sold themselves.
Petitioner has raised the objection that members of assembly involved in horse trading don’t fulfill article 62 and 63 of the constitution. They do not have the right to sit in assembly, he added. .
The petitioner requested that results of senate polls and election of chairman and deputy chairman senate should be nullified.
LHC has rejected the petition declaring it non-maintainable and said that EC has already taken a notice of this matter .