Supreme Court petitioned to invalidate Referendum Bill following expiration of ratification deadline
According to Article 262 of the Constitution, any amendment passed to the Constitution must be ratified within a 15-day period.
Two cases regarding the referendum have been filed with the Supreme Court, and details of these legal challenges have been released. | RaajjeMV | Raajje MV
A petition has been filed with the Supreme Court seeking to invalidate a bill regarding a referendum on holding presidential and parliamentary elections concurrently, citing the expiration of the statutory period for presidential assent.
Two cases regarding the referendum have been filed with the Supreme Court, including one submitted by attorney Ali Hussain against the President's Office. He shared the details of these cases during a press conference held on Tuesday.
The case asserts that the ratification of the constitutional amendments violated the timeframe stipulated under Article 262 of the Constitution. Specifically, the amendments passed to the Constitution were submitted to the President's Office for ratification on February 11.
According to Article 262 of the Constitution, a constitutional amendment must be ratified within 15 days of its passage. Ali Hussain stated that even when including public holidays in the count, this period has now expired.
Consequently, he stated that the bill is now void and that no vote should be conducted on an invalid piece of legislation. This is also the specific relief he has sought in the case filed with the Supreme Court.
