Islamabad:
Five judges of the Superior Court of Islamabad (IHC) have told the Supreme Court that the entire process regarding the transfer of three judges of different courts superior to the IHC was carried out in an improper hurry and contaminated itself with bad fides and motivated the desire of the federation to punish the judges of IHC and carry out a “control” of a superior court.
The judges of the petitioner, namely Judge Mohsin Akhtar Kayani, Judge Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri, Judge Ijaz Ishaq, Judge Saman Riffat Imtiaz and Judge Babar Sattar through his advice: Muneer to Malik and Barrime Salahuddin Ahmed. Transfers of three. IHC.
The replica establishes that after the petitioners wrote a letter dated 25.3.2024 to the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) complaining of instances of executive interference in their judicial functions and attempts to intimidate them and carry out a secret surveillance against them, caused numerous attacks against them (some of which could only originate from the government’s sources).
“In addition to a media trolling campaign against them, accusing them of being politically partisan (which was also the narrative promoted in the media by several high -level members of the government), a large number of complaints to the Supreme Judicial Council appeared against them for all aspects of imaginary offenses and the alleged behaviors that extend from the dual nationality, the false genetes, the authority to the authority to the authority to the authority to the authority to the authority to the authority to the authority The authority.
It is also stated that the family data of one of the petitioners (including passport details that could only have been filtered by a government authority) were published on social networks. For one of the other petitioners, his lawyer who dates back to more than three decades was suddenly canceled by a government university and an FIA investigation began, says Rejerinder.
In addition, he states that on one occasion, no less than four different government agencies (namely, PTA, Pemra, FIA and IB) transferred identical applications for the challenge of one of the petitioners who claimed that he was partial of intelligence agencies.
“Clearly, the letter of the six judges gave rise to a great mood against the petitioners by many superior government officials” “In this context, it is significant that the Federation began the transfers process immediately after the former president of the Superior Court of Islamabad, Judge Amer Faryoq, was proposed for the appointment of the Apex court.
It is claimed that the entire process from the flotation of the summary for the start of the transfer process, to the approvals of the Prime Minister and the President, to the search for the consent of the judges proposed to be transferred, as well as the four main justices interested, floating the final summary to affect the transfer, obtain the approval of the Prime Minister and President, and the issuance of the notification of the transfer was completed within 4 days Carry out the third minister for approval of the approval and the president, and the issuance of the transfer notification was completed within 4 days of scholars The notification of the transfer was completed within 4 days of scholarly judges and 2 days to carry out the third judge. This unprecedented hurry says a lot about the motivation of the Federation, “he adds.
It is also stated that the Federation, even in its first summary that seeks to initiate the transfer process, had already decided that at least one of those judge would be selected for the transfer that, if it is granted seniority from the date of its oath in its matrix court, it would overcome all the petitioners in ancient times. This selection is also worthy of mention since the only justification for transfers is the representation of certain provinces, but, for the other two provinces, relatively junior judges were selected. “
“However, the petitioners do not want to raise any personal complaint about the way in which they have been treated or pose a problem simply related to their personal age. What is more important is that the unprecedented way in which the functioning of a superior court can be affected by the Federation using their transfer powers in a reliable way.”
