LAHORE, July 29: The Punjab advocate-general on Wednesday moved an application before the Lahore High Court chief justice to constitute a larger bench for the hearing of 13 petitions seeking the suspension of no-confidence motions tabled against the Nazims and Naib Nazims of different union councils.

AG Syed Shabbar Raza Rizvi submitted in his application that the nature of the legal question raised in the petition required hearing by a larger bench to decide it. Currently, Justice Raja Muhammad Sabir is hearing these petitions.

The petitioners had challenged Section 92 of the Local Government Ordinance 2001, under which the union council members could move a no-confidence motion against any of Nazims or Naib Nazims with reasons to believe that the latter was acting against the public interest. They had pleaded that this provision was against the mandate given to them by the public. — Reporter