LAHORE:
The judicial staff, after re-opening polling bags on the orders of inquiry commission, have found around 6,000 Form 15s missing out of more than 9650 forms, at twelve provincial and National Assembly Constituencies of Lahore, it has been learnt.
According to sources, around 300 polling bags could not be found during the re-opening process. More than 2,600 polling bags were found unsealed and mostly the record was found packed in rice and wheat bags rather than the material provided by the election commission.
Out of the total 265 polling stations at NA-125 constituency, where Railway Minister Khawaja Saad Rafique defeated the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) Hamid Khan, around 68 Form-15 were found. At the constituency 30 polling bags were missing while seals of 230 polling bags were found broken.