TOBA TEK SINGH, April 1: The district nazim group on Tuesday gave an application to the city police for registration of a case against 26 people, including Naib Nazim Chaudhry Khalid Sardar (against whom a no-trust motion was passed on Monday) on the charge of creating chaos during the procedure of voting and scuffling with district council members.

Advocate Chaudhry Ramzan Cheechi, chairman of the district council’s presiding committee, alleged that Chaudhry Khalid Sardar, together with PML-Q defeated candidate for PP-90 Chaudhry Saeed Ahmad Saeedi, TMA sanitary inspector Tariq Alvi, government contractor Mian Mashoodur Rehman, who is the son of the late Chaudhry Muhammad Aslam (a former PPP MNA), and their two dozen accomplices stormed the meeting hall and announced that they would not allow the voting on no-trust motion.

Not only that, he said, they also took away the voting record and scuffled with the voters.A city police official confirmed that the application had been received. However, he said, it had been sent to the police department’s legal branch to inquire under which section the FIR was to be lodged.

District Nazim Chaudhry Abdul Sattar’s group passed on Monday the no-trust motion against former district nazim Chaudhry Muhammad Ashfaq group’s district naib nazim Chaudhry Khalid Sardar. The Lahore High Court had rejected Chaudhry Sardar’s plea to grant a stay order against the conduct of voting.

Nazim group’s Azhar Abbas Chattha and Rukhsana Kausar had presented three days ago the motion over which the district council’s presiding committee chairman summoned the meeting for Monday. Out of the 118 members of house, sixty-four members cast their votes against Chaudhry Khalid and one vote was rejected.

The naib nazim group members boycotted the meeting which was held at the district council rest house instead of its hall.

A leader of the ruling group, Advocate Rana Zafar Iqbal, said when his group members reached the hall to cast votes, it was occupied by non-members and staff of Toba TMA (Chaudhry Ashfaq's brother is a tehsil nazim), led by Chaudhry Khalid. As the ruling bench members asked Chaudhry Khalid to send the non-members out, a scuffle took place between both groups after which the police took charge of the hall. The meeting was later held at the rest house, he added.

Chaudhry Khalid claimed that the meeting was illegal as according to the rules the notice on the motion to the members must be sent three days before voting, but in this case the notice was given to only those members who belonged to Chaudhry Sattar’s group.

He said he would move court against the procedure adopted to approve the motion against him.