ISLAMABAD : Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its judgment in fake degree case of PTI\u2019s leader, Yar Muhammad Rind, which was challenged by Sardar Asim.<\/p>\n
A three-member bench of the apex court headed by the CJP, reserved the judgment after hearing arguments from both the sides.<\/p>\n
Earlier on July 05, the Supreme Court allowed Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Balochistan president Yar Muhammad Rind to contest the 2018 General Election.<\/p>\n
Setting aside the Balochistan High Court\u2019s (BHC) decision disqualifying Rind from the poll run, the top court directed the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to issue an electoral symbol to the PTI candidate.<\/p>\n
A two-judge bench of the apex court heard Rind\u2019s plea against the BHC\u2019s decision to disqualify him on the grounds that he possessed a fake degree and had a murder case against him.<\/p>\n
Rind\u2019s lawyer told the court, \u201cI had intentionally written in the nomination papers that the PTI Balochistan president holds a Faculty of Arts (FA) degree.\u201d<\/p>\n
Claiming that Rind\u2019s previous nomination papers stated that he held a Master\u2019s degree, his counsel added, \u201cI made a conscious decision to not mention that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Further, the PTI Balochistan president\u2019s counsel denied the chief justice\u2019s suggestion that there seems to be \u201csome dishonesty\u201d behind the decision.\u201cI was not being dishonest when I hid the degree certificate,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Regarding the murder case against him, Rind\u2019s lawyer stated, \u201cHe has been granted bail in the case.<\/p>\n
Earlier on July 03, Balochistan High Court maintained disqualification verdict of PTI\u2019s Provincial President, Yar Muhammad Rind.<\/p>\n
During the hearing, the BHC declared that the decision by the RO and appellate tribunal would stand and rejected his plea seeking permission to contest election from PB-17 and NA-260 Kachi\/Jhal Magsi.<\/p>\n
Yar Muhammad Rind had challenged the verdict of appellate tribunal barring him from contesting the election. Court had reserved verdict of the case during last hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD : Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its judgment in fake degree case of PTI\u2019s leader, Yar Muhammad Rind, which was challenged by Sardar Asim. A three-member bench of the apex court headed by the CJP, reserved the judgment after hearing arguments from both the sides. Earlier on July 05, the Supreme Court allowed Pakistan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n