An election petition filed by a PAS candidate disputing the results of the Sanglang state seat in Perlis will be heard by the Kangar High Court on April 3.

PAS candidate Hashim Jasin claims that he should have won the seat based an initial Election Commission record.

The EC officially announced that BN’s Abdullah Hassan garnered 3,384 as opposed to Hashim’s 3,235 to win with a majority of 149 votes.

Hashim, who is also the Perlis PAS commissioner, however claims that he should be declared the winner based on the vote tally in Form 14 which showed that he had polled 3,333 votes against 3,286 polled by Abdullah and thus had won by a 47-vote majority.

Apart from Abdullah, Hashim also named returning officer Muhamad Daud Abdull Hamid and the Election Commissioner as defendants.

The matter was to be heard today but was adjourned to April 13 by Judicial Commissioner Zamani A Rahim after allowing an application by the defendants to make preliminary objections.

He was represented by counsel Zulmi Sabri and Mohamed Hanipa Maidin while Abdullah was represented by counsel J.Karupiah and Muhamad Daud, who is also the returning officer for the Arau parliamentary seat, and the EC by counsel Siti Salwa Musa.

Hashim’s suit was filed on March 17. He was the incumbent of the state seat which he first won in 1999.

This is believed to be the first election petition to be filed and heard following the March 8 general election.