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HARIPUR, Sept 16: An additional sessions judge on Friday dismissed the bail application of a nazim-elect, his brother and eight of their companions and sent them all to jail. The accused men have been charged with beating up a rival candidate for union nazim on election day.
On the complaint of Masood Khan Jadoon, a former candidate for nazim of UC Rehana, Kotnajibullah police had registered a case against the nazim-elect from UC Rehana Mohammad Riaz Khan Tareen, his brother Mohammad Fiaz Khan Tareen, their relatives Javed Khan, Faisal Pervez Khan, Mumtaz Khan, Syed Shafaat Ali Shah, Sajid Mehmood, Master Fakhar Zaman, Liaqat Khan and Ahmad Nawaz Khan, under sections 337 L, 427, 147 and 148 PPC.
Mr Jadoon told the judge that he had been roughed up by his electoral foe and his henchmen and faced obstruction at their hands in the election process.
The accused men were on bail before arrest since Aug 29. After hearing the arguments of the two sides, Judge Qamar Sohail Lodhi of the additional sessions court dismissed the bail application of the accused men and ordered their arrest.
The complainant is behind bars for allegedly attempting to snatch ballot boxes from the polling staff on election day.
NOMINATIONS REJECTED: The nomination papers of eight contestants, including a woman candidate, were rejected by the returning officer during the scrutiny process for the third phase of local government elections here on Friday.
The returning officer also turned down the objections against the former district nazim’s candidature by PML-N’s candidate. The senior civil judge in Haripur, Tahir Mehmood Khan, during the scrutiny of papers rejected on technical grounds, the papers of seven candidates who had filed their papers for peasant workers category.
The papers of a woman who was contesting on reserved seats for women in Tehsil council Haripur, were rejected on the grounds that her proposer had wrongly proposed another candidate in the same category.
Those who were barred from contesting are former UC nazims Malik Mohammad Yunus, Mohammad Anwar Khan, Mohammad Salim Khan, former Tehsil naib nazim Amin Khan Badhora, Shamim Ahmad Khan, Irshad Khan, Malik Riaz Akhtar and Shaheen Bibi.
