ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) resumed hearing on Saturday the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) petition challenging the Peshawar High Court’s (PHC) decision to restore the PTI’s bat election symbol.
A three-judge bench, comprising Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa and Justices Muhammad Ali Mazhar and Musarrat Hilali is hearing the case.
On January 10, the PHC declared as unconstitutional the ECP’s decision of revoking the PTI’s ‘bat’ electoral symbol and rejecting its intra-party polls.
The high court directed the ECP to hand the PTI its bat electoral symbol back. It also directed the body to upload the party’s certificate of internal elections on its website.
Later, the ECP approached the apex court, contending that the high court’s decision was in violation of the Constitution and the law.