ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court docket’s six-member constitutional bench has begun listening to the instances that had been pending for years.
The bench, established beneath the twenty sixth tweak to the structure, heard its instances for the primary time on Thursday, in an effort to clear the numerous backlog and provides petitioners justice.
The Justice Amin-ud-Din Khan-led bench needed to hear round 34 instances as per the trigger record for November 14 and 15. Eighteen of those instances have been scheduled for Thursday and the remaining 16 set for Friday (as we speak).
With Justice Khan within the lead, the constitutional bench consists of Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhail, Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar, Justice Syed Hasan Azhar Rizvi, Justice Musarrat Hilali and Justice Naeem Akhtar Afghan.
Owing to the unavailability of Justice Ayesha A Malik on November 14 and 15, a related committee had determined {that a} bench comprising all accessible judges needs to be constituted to proceed with the instances on these dates.
The bench will hear numerous natures of instances as we speak together with a case pertaining to bringing again cash allegedly stashed overseas after embezzlement right here, a case concerning ladies’s harassment at an workplace, the lengthy due case of harassment between two celebrities — Ali Zafar and Meesha Shafi, the matter of Islamabad Conference Centre’s non-public use, ambit of Gilgit-Baltistan courts in Pakistan in addition to completely different petitions of Defence Minister Khawaja Asif pertaining to vitality initiatives.
The day prior to this, the bench had carried out listening to of 18 instances together with one difficult appointment of former chief justice Qazi Faez Isa because the Balochistan Excessive Court docket (BHC) chief justice and one other associated to environmental hazards.
The bench heard 18 instances, advancing proceedings on 4 whereas concluding 14, terming a few of them frivolous. Justice Mandokhail famous that 60,000 instances are pending attributable to comparable frivolous petitions.
Islamabad Conference Centre utilization case
The bench first heard the case concerning the non-public use of the Islamabad Conference Centre. Throughout the proceedings, the constitutional bench sought a response from the Legal professional Basic’s workplace on the matter.
Justice Mazhar famous {that a} discover had additionally been issued to a former prime minister as a part of this suo motu case. Justice Mandokhail directed that the conference centre needs to be managed in accordance with the establishment’s coverage.
The Further Legal professional Basic requested time to assemble info concerning excellent dues, to which Justice Aminuddin responded: “Receive the knowledge and replace the court docket shortly.”
Subsequently, the court docket adjourned the listening to for some time.
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