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KARACHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed the Sindh government’s leave to appeal against a Sindh High Court judgment for holding local bodies elections as time barred.
The SHC had directed the Sindh government on May 18 to hold local bodies elections within 90 days. It had also directed the Election Commission to announce a schedule for the local bodies election.
Being aggrieved, the Sindh government had submitted in its plea that local bodies elections could not be held as some election requirements, including delimitation of talukas and districts and preparation of computerised voter lists, were yet to be fulfilled.
The government had also submitted that unprecedented floods and the law and order
situation in the province also made it difficult for the government to hold the local bodies’ elections.
Besides, the provincial government had also submitted that general elections were due to be held in the first quarter of the next year, and it would be appropriate if the local bodies’ elections were held after the general elections. The court had been prayed to set aside the SHC judgment on the holding of local bodies’ elections.
The three-member bench of the SC, headed by Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali, observed that leave to appeal was time barred, and it was filed after the stipulated time.
The bench dismissed the appeal.
It is pertinent to mention here that former district Nazims, Nasir Hussain Shah and Dr Raheela Magsi, had filed a petition in the SHC against the government’s not holding local bodies’ elections.
The petitioners had contended that the Sindh government had been denying the people their right to franchise by delaying holding the local government elections.
The SHC had directed the Sindh government on May 18 to hold local bodies elections within 90 days. It had also directed the Election Commission to announce a schedule for the local bodies election.
Being aggrieved, the Sindh government had submitted in its plea that local bodies elections could not be held as some election requirements, including delimitation of talukas and districts and preparation of computerised voter lists, were yet to be fulfilled.
The government had also submitted that unprecedented floods and the law and order
situation in the province also made it difficult for the government to hold the local bodies’ elections.
Besides, the provincial government had also submitted that general elections were due to be held in the first quarter of the next year, and it would be appropriate if the local bodies’ elections were held after the general elections. The court had been prayed to set aside the SHC judgment on the holding of local bodies’ elections.
The three-member bench of the SC, headed by Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali, observed that leave to appeal was time barred, and it was filed after the stipulated time.
The bench dismissed the appeal.
It is pertinent to mention here that former district Nazims, Nasir Hussain Shah and Dr Raheela Magsi, had filed a petition in the SHC against the government’s not holding local bodies’ elections.
The petitioners had contended that the Sindh government had been denying the people their right to franchise by delaying holding the local government elections.
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