Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Thursday filed a petition in the Peshawar High Court (PHC), seeking initiation of contempt of court proceedings against officials of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) for not uploading its election symbol of ‘bat’ on its website despite the PHC’s order, reported 24NewsHD TV channel.
The PTI, in its petition, prayed to the court to summon Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja and all ECP members for not complying with its order in the intra-party elections case.
A division bench of the Peshawar High Court had on Wednesday restored “bat” as the election symbol of PTI.
The high court pronounced the verdict reserved earlier today and issued a short order.
The short order consisted of three points, according to which the December 22 order of the Election Commission of Pakistan is unconstitutional which revoked the PTI’s ‘bat’ electoral symbol and rejected its intra-party polls. The court directed the electoral body to restore the PTI its ‘bat’ symbol and upload the party’s internal poll certificate on its website.
The decision came shortly after the party withdrew from the Supreme Court its appeal seeking the restoration of its electoral symbol.
Reporter: Amir Shahzad