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PHC restores ECP Dec 22 verdict, PTI deprived of bat election symbol

Peshawar: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Wednesday restored the Election Commission of Pakistan verdict of December 22 regarding the Pakistan Tehreeke-e-Insaf (PTI) intra-party election and election symbol of it.

The PHC pronounced the reserved verdict.

A single-member bench comprising Justice Ejaz Khan conducted the hearing on the matter.

The court approving the petition of the ECP restored the ECP judgement announced on December 22 and withdrew its prohibitionary order.

Under the December 22 verdict PTI was deprived of its election symbol bat and its intra-party elections were declared illegal.

The PHC resumed hearing on the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) petition challenging its single-bench ruling on Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) electoral ‘ba t’ symbol and intra-party polls.

ECP’s lawyer Sikander Bashir Mohmand and PTI’s legal team comprising Advocates Shah Faisal Uthmankhel and Qazi Anwar appeared in the courtroom.

The electoral body had filed a review petition at the high court against its December 26 decision which had suspended the ECP’s order and restored the party’s ‘bat’ symbol till a final decision on the matter.

The ECP, in its order, had declared PTI’s intra-party polls “illegal” and stripped it of using the ‘bat’ symbol. Following its order, the former ruling party approached the PHC seeking to restore its party symbol ahead of the general elections slated for February 8.

In its petition, the ECP then requested the court to review the PTI’s intra-party elections and its decision related to the election symbol.

A day earlier, the court heard the arguments of the ECP’s counsel and then adjourned the hearing till today (Wednesday).