Law: Elections Act, 2017

Section: 139,84,95,15491)(b)(ii)(iii),156(2),158

Law: Constitution of Pakistan, 1973

Section: 218(3)

(a) Elections Act (XXXIII of 2017)--- ----Ss. 139, 84, 95, 154 (1)(b)(ii)(iii), 156(2) & 158---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 218 (3)---Election petition---Election for the seat of Member National Assembly---Allegations of illegal and corrupt practices---Violation of provisions of Elections Act, 2017---Effect---Bogus votes---Verification of thumb impressions of voters on the counterfoils of ballot papers---Witnesses produced by the petitioner had specifically alleged that votes obtained by the petitioner were snatched, double stamped and spoiled---Large number of votes were declared invalid and excluded from the total count---Rejection of votes on widespread scale could not be ruled out of consideration and the assertions of witnesses of petitioner---Sufficient evidence had been produced by the petitioner with regard to commission of massive rigging in the elections by the supporters and agents of returned candidate with the connivance of polling staff had failed to produce even a single evidence in support of his contention---Bald denial of returned candidate was not enough to discard the evidence produced by the petitioner---Bogus votes had been cast without appending fingerprints of the voters on the counterfoils of ballot papers---Report prepared by National Database and Registration Authority for verification of thumb impressions of voters on the counterfoils of ballot papers had established the allegations of casting bogus votes by means of impersonation---Neither the votes cast on invalid Computerized National Identity Card were acceptable nor mentioning of incomplete Identity Card number could be considered as human error---More than 45% of…

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