LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Monday gave a ruling that decisions of election tribunals could not be challenged before high court.

Justice Ijazul Ahsan gave the ruling, dismissing two petitions of PML-N MPAs for being non-maintainable.

In the first petition, Mohsin Latif, a returned candidate from PP-147 Lahore, pleaded that his opponent, Shoaib Siddiqui, had filed a petition against his victory before the election tribunal. He said Mr Siddiqui had attached unattested documents with the petition which was not permitted under the law. He said the tribunal should have dismissed Siddiqui’s petition but it had not done so.

In the second petition, Shaukat Cheema stated that he had won election from PP-104 but his opponent approached the election tribunal and accused him of holding a fake graduation degree.

Dismissing both the petitions, the judge remarked that LHC Multan bench had already declared that the high court was not the competent forum against election tribunals’ decisions as only the Supreme Court could entertain such petitions.

METRO BUS: The Lahore High Court disposed of a petition against acquisition of a land for the Metro Bus System track allegedly without fulfilling prerequisites and paying compensation to the petitioner. Appearing before the court, Lahore Commissioner Rashid Mahmood Langrial said the government had not acquired the petitioner’s property but he had already sold out shops constructed on his land. He said 19-marla land in front of shops was being used for parking. In light of the commissioner’s reply, the court disposed of the petition.

Petitioner Zameer Husain had contended that the government had acquired his land to construct MBS bridge-track on Qartaba Chowk, Mozang.

BA/BSc (Hons): A Lahore High Court division bench allowed holders of BA/BSc (honours) and BS degrees for admission to LLB.

The bench was hearing a petition of an FC College’s student Shehraiz Asghar.

The petitioner said he had obtained four-year BS (honours) degree from the Punjab University but he had been disqualified for admission to LLB. He said the act of the university was discriminatory and in violation of fundamental rights protected in the Constitution.

Legal adviser to the university told the bench that a notification had been issued, declaring BSc/BA (honours) degree holders eligible for LLB course. At this, the court disposed of the petition.