ISLAMABAD: Supreme Courtroom’s Justice Mansoor Ali Shah and Justice Munib Akhtar have requested Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Yahya Khan Afridi to repair the petitions towards the lately adopted twenty sixth Constitutional Modification earlier than a full courtroom this week.
The letter undersigned by the 2 judges, who’re the members of the committee constituted beneath the Supreme Courtroom Apply and Process Act (2023) for fixing instances and forming benches, said that this committee determined that the “constitutional petitions” difficult the judicial reforms be fastened for listening to in full courtroom on November 4.
It said 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 Apply and Process Act and must be given impact.
“We’re subsequently constrained to require the fixation of the aforementioned constitutional petitions earlier than the total courtroom positively throughout the present week, and for the trigger record to be issued accordingly forthwith,” the letter learn.
It additional said that the Supreme Courtroom registrar is directed to add the committee’s resolution of 31 October, 2024 on the official web site of the highest courtroom.
It might be famous that a number of pleas have been filed within the Supreme Courtroom towards the controversial constitutional tweaks lately launched by the federal government, which stay a bone of competition 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 varied attorneys’ our bodies together with the Supreme Courtroom Bar Affiliation (SCBA), contending that the twenty sixth Constitutional Modification is towards primary human rights and repugnant to the precept of independence of judiciary.
Furthermore, the SCBA has sought the structure of a full courtroom bench for listening to the petitions difficult the modification.