The Lahore High Court reissued notices to PML-N senior leader Sardar Zulfiqar Khan Khosa, its senator Pervez Rasheed and two MNAs Khawaja Saad Rafique and Pervez Malik in a petition of former MPA Shumaila Rana seeking restoration of her assembly seat. A court official informed the court that the earlier notices to the respondents had not been served due to confusion in their addresses.
At this the court issued fresh notices to all the respondents. Ms Shumaila had resigned from her assembly membership in July 2009 owing to party pressure after a case of credit card misuse and its theft was registered against her. Later she was acquitted of the charges and filed the petition for the restoration of her membership and alleged that she had resigned under coercion. Besides PML-N leaders she also made party to speaker Punjab assembly Rana Iqbal in her petition.
Shumaila Rana through her counsel Azhar Hameed submitted that after the registration of theft case her party leaders harassed her for resigning from the seat of MPA and subsequently she resigned. She further said the credit card theft case against her was concocted and baseless and she was acquitted from the charges by the court of law. The speaker accepted her resignation, which she never gave him. She said the speaker-committed illegality by accepting her resignation, as he did not adopt legal procedure while accepting her resignation. She prayed to the court to declare the notification issued by Punjab election commission to de-notify her as MPA as illegal and the respondents be directed to notify her as MPA.
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