Punjab challenges Supreme Court docket’s restoration of native councils

The provincial authorities will file a complete attraction within the high court docket inside few days.

A brand new native authorities regulation has been on the anvil in Punjab, which is able to empower the native representatives, in accordance with the petition.

The restoration of the 2016 native councils will create issues, the federal government argued in its petition.

The Supreme Court docket had restored the native authorities system in Punjab on March 25, by terming the Native Our bodies Act 2019 in contradiction with the Structure of Pakistan.

The Punjab Native Authorities Act 2019 was handed by the provincial legislature in Might, 2019.

A bench of the Supreme Court docket headed by CJP Justice Gulzar Ahmed, terming part three of the Native Our bodies Act in contradiction of the structure, ordered to revive the native authorities system in Punjab.

Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Gulzar Ahmed questioned the rationale behind winding up the native councils in Punjab.

The applicant had pleaded to the court docket that the native authorities system was terminated earlier than its due time in December 2021.

The court docket after listening to arguments from each side, had ordered to revive native councils by terming part three of the Native Our bodies Act in contravention with the structure of Pakistan.