LAHORE, April 12: A division bench of the Lahore High Court on Monday issued a stay order restricting an election tribunal from any further proceeding on the election petition against Punjab Assembly Speaker Afzal Sahi till further orders.

The bench, comprising justices M Javed Buttar and Muhammad Muzammil Khan, directed the Chief Election Commissioner and petitioner Haji Liaquat Ali to produce evidence in the court on the next date of the hearing.

The stay order was issued on the appeal of Mr Sahi who through his counsel Riasat Chaudhry had requested the division bench to allow him to amend his reply he had filed in response to the election petition against him.

The counsel said after he had filed the reply he came to know that the petitioner had not fulfilled the legal requirements as the documents he attached along with his petition were not duly attested by the oath commissioner.

He said he also filed a miscellaneous petition before the election tribunal and requested to allow him to amend his reply but that was not entertained. -PPI