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| 2025 SLG 1585 2025 SLD 1585 = 2025 SCMR 466 |
Civil Appeal No. 1349 of 2024, decided on 20th November, 2024. (Against the judgment dated 16.09.2024 of the Election Tribunal, Balochistan, Quetta in Election Petition No. 15 of 2024).
Present: Shahid Waheed, Irfan Saadat Khan and Aqeel Ahmed Abbasi, JJ
M. Shahzad Shoukat, Advocate Supreme Court and Ch. Akhtar Ali, Advocateon-Record for Appellant. Kamran Murtaza, Senior Advocate Supreme Court and Syed Rifaqat Hussain Shah, Advocate-on-Record for
Respondent No. 1. Ajmal Ghafoor Toor, Advocate Supreme Court for
Respondent No. 31.
Respondent No. 17 in person. Falak Sher, Assistant Director (Law) and M. Arshad, Spl. Secretary (Law) ECP for ECP. Date of hearing: 20th November, 2024.
ALI MADAD JATTAK ---Appellant
VERSUS
Mir MUHAMMAD USMAN PIRKANI and others ---Respondents
Law: Elections Act, 2017
Section: 155, FORM 45
Law: Qanoon-e-Shahadat Order, 1984
Section: 72
(a) Elections Act (XXXIII of 2017)---
----S. 148---Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984), Art. 72---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O. XIII, R. 4---Procedure before Election Tribunal---Exhibiting of document---Procedure---In case of substantial compliance of legal procedure, formal exhibition requirement is not absolute---Such requirement can be relaxed under certain circumstances, particularly, in election matter pending before Election Tribunal, which can adopt any course of action to regulate its proceeding instead of following technicalities of C.P.C., except such provisions specifically made applicable for limited purposes.