The supreme court's (SC) highly anticipated verdict in the matter related to reserved seats for women and non - Muslims has been put off till tomorrow (Firday).
A 13-member full court will announce the verdict at 12pm.An earlier cause list had said that a three -member bench would announce the verdict at 9am.
the sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) held a large protest outside the apex court today as the verdict was awaited
The court had reserved its verdict on tuesday after closing the hearing on a set of appeals moved by the SIC.
Saga of reserved seats
The SIC had earlier been joined by PTI -backed independent candidates after they won the february 8 elections as their party had been deprived of its electoral symbol 'bat'.
in a 4-1 verdict in march the Election commission of pakistan (ECP) had ruled that the SIC was not entitled to claim quota for reserved seats ''due to having non - curable legal defects and violation of a mandatory provision of submission of party list for reserved seats''.
the commission had also decided to distribute the seats among other parliamentary parties .with the PML-N and the PPP becoming major beneficiaries with 16 and five additional seats while the jamiatulema-I- islam Fazl (JUI-F was given four Meanwhile, the verdict was rejected by the PTI as unconstitutional.
Later the same month .while ruling on an SIC plea , the Peshawar High Court (PHC) had dismissed an SIC plea challenging the ECP decision and denied it reserved seats .
In April, the SIC filed a petition before the SC - moved by party chief sahibzada Hamid Raza - seeking to set aside the PHC judgment .
the apex court on may 6 had suspended the March 14 PHC judgment as well as the march 1 ECP decision to deprive the SIC of seats reserved for women and minorities
the SC had Also ordered placing the present petitions before the three- judge committee that determines the constitution of the bench for the reconstitution of a large bench when Attorney General for pakistan Mansoor Usman Awan highlighted that under section 4 of the supreme court (practice and procedure ) Act 2023 , the present case should be heard by a large bench since the issue concerns the interpretation of constitutional provisions .
The ECP subsequently suspended victory notifications of as many as 77 members of the national and provincial assemblies elected on those seats.
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