HARIPUR, July 27: The District and Sessions Judge Haripur on Wednesday dismissed 11 appeals against acceptance of nomination papers and allowed all the respondents to contest the polls.

Earlier on Tuesday the judge had dismissed appeals against two panels of union nazims while had declared papers of another candidate as valid.

According to decisions collected from the court, Judge Syed Afsar Shah, after hearing both sides, dismissed 11 appeals against acceptance of nomination papers of rivals of the appellants while accepted four appeals against rejection of the nomination papers four panels of candidates.

The appeals were filed by Irshad Khan against Pervez Akhtar Rana advocate and Pervez Akhtar Rana advocate against Irshad Khan for the post of nazim UC Haripur south, Sikandar Hayat vs Mehr Nishad for the UC Khalabat, Iqbal Ahmad vs Syed Ahsan Shah of UC Shah Maqsood, Haji Abdul Salam vs Khurshid Anwar Khan for nazim UC Ali Khan, Aftab Ahmad vs Nasir Kiyani Returning officer, Farzana Sajjad vs Returning officer, candidate for Muslim general councillor women UC North, Nasreen Bibi vs RO Farhat Yasmin candidate for peasant worker women UC North Haripur, Seth Naveed Asghar vs. Mohammad Sadiq UC North general councillor, Shafiq Ahmad vs Qamar Hussain.

Likewise nomination papers of the panels of Syed Nazran Shah/Sardar Mazhar Elahi and Anwar Awan/Zahoor Hussain Shah from Kotnajibullah UC, Iqbal Malik/Ilyas Khan from UC Shah Maqsood, Abdul Malik/Saleh Mohammad from UC Ladarmang and Zar Jan vs RO, candidate for women general councillor were accepted and they were allowed to contest election.

The concerned returning officers, on 23rd of July, had rejected their papers for allegedly concealing assets.