SC takes up ECP's plea for review of April 4 verdict today.

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday adjourned the hearing on Election Commission of Pakistan's (ECP) plea asking the top court to revisit its April 4 order of holding elections to the Punjab Assembly on May 14 till Wednesday (May 24). A three-member SC bench comprising Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial, Justice Ijaz Ul Ahsan and Justice Munib Akhtar heard the case.

During the course of proceedings, Advocate Sajeel Swati counsel for ECP said that the federal and Punjab governments had submitted their responses in the case. The chief justice said that the PTI had not submitted its response yet.

The counsel replied that the electoral watchdog had not received the replies of any political party. He pleaded the court to grant time to review all the responses.

The chief justice asked the ECP counsel to submit his arguments in the case. The counsel said that the jurisdiction of ECP's review petition was not limited to constitutional cases.

Justice Ijaz Ul Ahsan said that approaching courts for fundamental rights was regarded as a civilian case. Advocate Swati said that the proceedings under Article 184(3) were not civil in nature.

Justice Ijaz said that one section of Article 184(3) fell under public interest and the other pertained to fundamental rights. The counsel said that Article 184(3) did not give the right...