Justice Ijazul Hassan of the Lahore High Court on Monday referred a petition of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf leader Jahangir Tareen against new delimitation to chief justice for fixing it before some other bench. Tareen had challenged the new delimitation done by Punjab government for local government election in the province.
The petitioner stated that the government intervened in the jurisdiction the election commission of Pakistan (ECP) by doing delimitation following an amendment in Local Government Ordinance 2013. He said the government has no power to delimit the constituencies but it violated the Constitution.