LHC declares non maintainable petition seeking removal of Sadiq Sanjarani as chairman Senate

LAHORE, March 05 (Online): Lahore High Court (LHC) has declared non maintainable the petition seeking removal of Sadiq Sanjarani from the position of chairman Senate while maintaining registrar office objection on the powers of jurisdiction of court regarding petition. The petition filed by citizen Mashkoor Hussain came up for hearing before Justice Shahid Bilal Hassan of LHC Tuesday.

Sadiq Sanjarani , Election Commission (EC) and others were made respondents in the petition.
The petitioner took the plea in the petition that Sadiq Sanjarani contested election on seat of provincial assembly Balochistan and he won the election. EC issued notification of his success. Sadiq Sanjarani cannot retain two seats at a time.
Sadiq Sanjarani is working as chairman Senate illegally.

The petitioner requested that EC should order to declare Sadiq Sanjarani seat as senator vacant and restrain him from working as chairman Senate. The court while maintaining registrar office objection on the court’s powers of jurisdiction in respect of the petition seeking removal of Sadiq Sanjarani from post of chairman Senate declared the petition non maintainable.