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| SC orders action against lawmakers having fake degrees |
| 2010-06-25 |
| [Dawn] The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to initiate action against legislators accused of committing corrupt practices by getting elected to legislative bodies on fake degrees. Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, writing a detailed judgment to justify the rejection of an appeal by PML-N's former member Punjab Assembly Rizwan Gill from PP-34 Sargodha VII for possessing fake bachelor's degree also directed the commission to ensure honest, efficient and expeditious investigations in these matters. The commission is required to depute one of its senior officers to supervise the entire exercise while the Sessions Judges to whom these trials will be entrusted, will conclude such probe in three months without delay in consonance with the spirit of elections laws. |
| Posted by:Fred |