Islamabad: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan on Saturday predicted general elections might be held this year if the proposed judicial commission into poll rigging takes up the cases pending in election tribunals.

While talking to media Khan took an exception to the government, former Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry and former Supreme Court judge Khalilur Rehman Ramday for alleged fraud in the 2013 election.

“We will prove that Iftikhar Chaudhry and Ramday controlled returning officers,” Khan claimed.

He went on to say that Chaudhry committed treason against democracy and should be tried under Article six of the constitution.

Khan once again ruled out the possibility of PTI’s return to national and provincial assemblies and warned that any member who violates party policy will be ousted from the PTI.

“We will go to assemblies if the judicial commission declares the election legitimate,” Imran Khan said, adding that the probe commission would not be able to do anything if it is established on the basis of the N-league draft. He said the PML-N was scared of the judicial commission.

Meanwhile, Judge Malek Gulam Hussain of the Inquiry Commission (IC) has presented a report to the Election Tribunal (ET) on alleged poll rigging in NA-122.

The judge, while recording a statement before the ET on the occasion of filing of an inquiry report, said on Saturday that no clear evidence on rigging in this constituency has come to the fore and flaws pointed out in the inquiry committee cannot be attributed to any one candidate.

He said in his statement that a tremendous amount of negligence and slackness was demonstrated during polling in NA-122. As per law it is mandatory that the reverse side of ballot papers and counterfoils should bear the stamp and signatures of polling staff but they lacked these.

The ballot papers which did not carry stamps were rejected and the ballot papers numbering 300132, which have counterfoils, can be taken as rigging. ET is entitled to accept or reject these 30132 counterfoils.

Counsels for National Assembly (NA) speaker Ayyaz Sadiq and Imran conducted cross-questioning on the statement of IC judge Malek Ghulam Hussain.

The judge said that he has recorded a statement that rigging has not been seen but negligence and malpractices of the staff have been seen which have been identified in the report.

Counsel for Imran Khan asked IC judge during the course of cross questioning what the commission had done over non-matching ballot papers and series of counterfoils with original series and absence of stamp and signatures on the reverse of ballot papers.

The IC judge said the ET has to decide whether or not to reject counterfoils like ballot papers.

The ET judge adjourned the hearing of the case until January 31.