The Supreme Court on Friday rejected an unconditional apology sought by Syeda Waheeda Shah in a case of manhandling an Election Commission (EC) official at a polling station during recently held by-elections.The Pakistain People's Party's (PPP) Sindh Assembly candidate had slapped a polling staff in Tando Muhammad Khan. She was repeatedly shown on TV, physically attacking the polling staff on the election day.
The EC had started the paperwork but haven't done much else against the candidate and decided to withhold the official result of by-election in the constituency, Sindh Assembly seat PS-53.
While hearing of the suo moto notice of the incident, Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry showed his announce when he told Ms Shah: "You have slapped the whole nation. The matter is not related to the court now --the state has also become a party in it."