As per contents of this writ petition; the petitioner to contest election to a seat of Nazim in U.C. No.43 filed forms alongwith Muhammad Tariq Gujjar for Naib-Nazim. Respondent No.3 objected that Matric Certificate of said Tariq Gujjar is bogus. Learned R.O. Rejected the papers holding that the certificate relied upon by said Tariq is bogus. Appeal filed by said Tariq was dismissed by learned D.R.O., Gujranwala vide order, dated 10-3-2001 for non-prosecution.
2. Learned counsel contends that the learned R.O. Could not have held the certificate to be bogus in summary proceedings of the nature of scrutiny of the nomination papers.
3. I have examined the order of the learned R.O. In the light of the said contention. I find that the learned R.O. Had made sufficient enquiry with reference to the record of the relevant Board as also the school record of the said Tariq. I may state here that in number of cases I had come across fake certificates being pressed into service by the candidates for the said seats. I have also noted that somehow or other Educational Board had managed to maintain secrecy regarding the serial numbers against which certificates are to be issued to the students who are declared to have passed the examination. The unscrupulous employees of the Board do manage to issue fake certificates but more often than not are unable to trace correct serial' numbers. In this case in hand also said Tariq Gujjar has been caught by the learned R.O. At what, prima facie, appears to be a fraud, by discovering that the genuine certificate had been issued at serial number different from the one appearing on the certificate being relied upon by said Tariq Gujjar. I do not find any reason to interfere with the impugned order.
4. The writ petition is accordingly dismissed in liming.