Massive rigging was proved in the National Assembly constituency NA-128 in an Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) report submitted before the election tribunal on Saturday.
The report was submitted before the election tribunal of Justice (r) Kazim Malik, who is hearing the complaint of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf candidate Karamat Khokhar from NA 128, Lahore.
According to the report, as many as 30,472 votes were found bogus while record of 24,493 votes was missing during the probe. A total 192,660 votes were polled in NA-128, but returning officers issued a result having 223,132 votes. The report also read that the polled votes were founded in fertiliser sacks instead of ballot boxes.
The report also disclosed that Patwari Raheel Asghar was deputed in Polling Station No 11 as a presiding officer (PO) in violation of the ECP rules.
PML-N MNA Malik Afzal Khokhar, who had won the election, expressed his distrust of the commission’s report. The election tribunal did not give any final decision on the petition after the PML-N lawmaker showed his lack of confidence in the tribunal.
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