- Letter says determination to repair pleas on Nov 4 not carried out.
- Justices say no trigger record issued for listening to as per determination.
- Letter directs SC registrar to add Oct 31 determination on web site.
ISLAMABAD: Supreme Courtroom’s Justice Mansoor Ali Shah and Justice Munib Akhtar have written to Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Yahya Khan Afridi searching for quick fixation of the pleas difficult the lately adopted twenty sixth Constitutional Modification.
The letter undersigned by the 2 judges, who’re the members of the committee constituted beneath the Supreme Courtroom Observe and Process Act (2023) for fixing instances and forming benches, acknowledged that this committee determined that the “constitutional petitions” difficult the twenty sixth Constitutional Modification be mounted for listening to in full court docket on November 4.
It acknowledged that the choice made on October 31 was promptly communicated on the identical day however no trigger record was issued for the listening to on the stated date.
The choice of the committee continues to face by way of Part 2(3) of Observe and Process Act and must be given impact.
“We’re subsequently constrained to require the fixation of the aforementioned constitutional petitions earlier than the complete court docket positively through the present week, and for the trigger record to be issued accordingly forthwith,” the letter learn.
It additional acknowledged that the Supreme Courtroom registrar is directed to add the committee’s determination of 31 October, 2024 on the official web site of the highest court docket.
It could be famous that a number of pleas have been filed within the Supreme Courtroom towards the controversial judicial reforms lately launched by the federal government, which stay a bone of rivalry regardless of their dramatic passage within the parliament consequent signing after a number of delays.
These pleas have been submitted by Jamat-e-Islami (JI) and numerous legal professionals’ our bodies together with the Supreme Courtroom Bar Affiliation (SCBA), contending that the twenty sixth Constitutional Modification towards primary human rights and repugnant to the precept of independence of judiciary.
Furthermore, the SCBA has sought the structure of a full court docket bench for listening to the petitions difficult the modification.