Staff Reporter
The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday suspended the success notification of bogus degree holder candidates in Punjab Bar elections.
A bench of the high court comprised of Chief Justice Qasim Khan also suspended the legal practicing license of the bogus degree holders.
A counsel for the Punjab University submitted report about the degrees of the candidates.
“The university has record of all candidates and this report is only related to the verification of the LLB degree,” the counsel informed the court.
“I am convinced of a functional democratic system and the results could not be suspended four months for verification of the degrees,” Chief Justice Qasim Khan said.
The chief justice said that he is constituting a commission headed by the Registrar. “In case of a report against a candidate of the Bar, the RO will reissue a notification,” the chief justice said. The bench directed all candidates to submit their degrees to the A.G. Punjab within a week.
The LHC Registrar will sent degrees to the universities for verification, the court ruled.
A lawyer had filed a petition in the Lahore High Court for verification of the degrees of all contesting candidates in bar elections.
The Punjab Bar Council had recently cancelled the legal practicing license of eight lawyers after Punjab University declared their LLB degrees fake.
