GUJRANWALA: Additional District and Sessions Judge Arshad Javed on Monday dismissed the plea of an aspirant for the slot of chairman of Union Council 91, Naukher, Hafizabad Road, for declaring him alive and restoration of his nomination papers.

Advocate Sardar Asim Javed, counsel for Jamaat-i-Islami ticket holder Muhammad Anwar, told Dawn he would move the Lahore High Court against the lower court’s decision and had applied for an attested copy of the verdict.

He said his client was alive, but the election commission had declared him dead in the voters list on the report of the union council secretary concerned. The secretary, he claimed, had submitted an affidavit to the court that he had not issued any death certificate for Anwar.

Election commission staff said it was a mistake on the part of the National Database and Registration Authority and only that authority could rectify the error.

CASE: A woman fell unconscious inside the court when the additional district and sessions judge ordered her to hand over her young nephew and niece to their father during hearing of a custody case on Monday.

Maheen, 11, and Bilal, 9, were living with their paternal aunt after the death of their mother Shabana, while their father Saleem Shehzad contracted a second marriage. He asked his sister to hand over the children to him, but she refused.

He filed a petition in the court and pleaded that his children were being ignored and their future was at stake and that they be handed over to him.

ADSJ Liaquat Ali Ranjha summoned the woman and her father Arshad and ordered her to hand over the children to their father.

The woman fell unconscious and was taken to the DHQ Hospital.

REMAND: Local Anti-Terrorism Court No 1 Judge Imtiaz Ahmad extended on Monday by seven days the judicial remand of two alleged activists of the defunct Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan Asmatullah Muawia group.

The Counter-Terrorism Department had arrested Sikander Sharif and Ansar Hayat from Wazirabad a fortnight ago and seized three hand grenades from them.

THEFT: Alleged robbers broke into 13 shops late on Sunday in Kotlwali and took away goods worth hundreds of thousands of rupees.

On Monday morning, when shopkeepers found shutters and locks broken, they held a demonstration and shouted slogans against police.

Anjuman Tajiran Bazaar Chorigaran President Azam Shahzad and General Secretary Ehsanullah Sheikh demanded the police arrest the culprits soon.

Published in Dawn, October 13th , 2015

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