Mirpur:
The Supreme Court of Azad Jammu Kashmira (AJK) revoked on Wednesday the disqualification of former Prime Minister Sardar Tanveer Ilyas, which allowed him to dispute the elections to any public office.
The Court accepted the appeal of Ilyas against its disqualification, which was granted by the Superior Court of AJK in a case of contempt of the court.
Ilitas had sought the forgiveness of the Court and was granted relief after a complete bank of the Supreme Court headed by the president of the Supreme Court Raja Saeed Akram Khan finished the sentence. The verdict makes Ilyas eligible to participate in the elections after a month.
In April 2023, a Bank of the Complete Court of the Jammu de Azad and the Superior Court of Kashmir contempt.
The unanimous decision of the six judges, written by Judge Khalid Rasheed, had left everyone present in the Court at that time shocked, since the majority expected the court to show clemency and accept the unconditional apology presented by Ajk’s Prime Minister .
“Mr. Tanveer Ilyas has admitted the content of the newspaper cuts in the open court. Prima Facie, in his statement, a derogatory writing that is against prestige and independence of [the] Judiciary … has presented his response, declaring that if somehow the prestige and the state of the Judiciary are injured, it offers an unconditional apology and is placed at the mercy of the court, “the sentence said.
As the container itself admitted comments related to contempt and also refrained from presenting “any other objection or response” in response to the “notice of the cause of the case issued in the open court”, therefore, “it can be sustained in a way Surely that his act reaches the scope of contempt to the court under article 45 of the Interim Constitution of AJK, 1974, “the sentence added.
