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The suit was filed as an urgent one, along with an application to assign it to a court speedily and for it to be heard and dispensed with expeditiously, but in a surprising turn of events, it took up to 2 weeks for the matter to be assigned to a court, and no date has been set for its commencement yet.
The lawyers also cited relevant sections of the Local Government Law which use both ‘remove’ and ‘suspend’, with regard to local government officials, interchangeably and interpret both to mean the same thing. Not done, our lawyers filed an amended suit choosing to abandon the first and fourth questions earlier raised, and the prayers associated with them.