ISLAMABAD – The Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday rejected the Lahore HighCourt order against Imran Khan and stopped the recounting order in NA 131Lahore.

SC accepted PTI chief Imran Khan’s petition.

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Khawaja Saad Rafique hadpetitioned for a recount in the closely contested NA-131 Lahore-9constituency, from where Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khanhad emerged victorious. He had alleged that the presiding officerdeliberately rejected hundreds of votes.

Bagging a total of 84,313 votes in the constituency, Imran had defeatedRafique by 680 ballots.

The PML-N leader had then requested the constituency’s returning officer(RO) to conduct a recount of the rejected votes. Following there-tabulation, Imran’s margin of victory had reduced to 608 votes.

Later, Rafique had petitioned to re-tabulate results of the entireconstituency which was rejected by the returning officer. The PML-N leaderhad then challenged the decision in LHC’s election tribunal.