The Supreme Court has canceled the provisional order which prohibited the Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri judge from exercising legal duties. A constitutional bench of the Supreme Court accepted the appeal of Judge Jahangiri, judging that “a judge cannot be retained from the execution of duties according to a provisional order”.
A constitutional bench (CB) of Supreme Court (SC) Directed by judge Aminuddin Khan and including judge Jamal Khan Mandokhail, judge Muhammad Ali Mazhar, judge Hassan Azhar Rizvi and judge Shahid Bilal Hassan supervised the case.
The Attorney General Mansoor Usman Awan appeared before the court, declaring: “A judge cannot be prohibited for legal work through a provisional order.
The main lawyer MUNNIER A. MALIK questioned the order of the High Court of Islamabad (IHC) at the hearing today, declaring: “In my opinion, the measures against a judge can only be taken by the Supreme Judicial Council.”
The written order of the SC noted that the petition deposited in the IHC has certain objections, and the petitioner Mian Dawood himself declared before the Supreme Court. The SC accepted the appeal of the Tariq Jahangiri judge against the IHC. The high court must first decide objections before continuing.
“In the quo warranto Petition deposited before the High Court of Islamabad, the high court must first decide objections before proceeding more. »»
Judge Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri resumed his duties as justice and arrived at his courtroom after being reinstated. He started to hear the business again following the Supreme Court’s decision to restore him to his post.
Judge Jahangiri is now chairing business in a single bench, and with judge Saman Rafat Imtiaz, their division bench is also available today for hearings.
The Supreme Court suspended the IHC ordinance on Monday which had prohibited the Judge of the IHC Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri from carrying out legal work. The IHC subsequently published a new list of cause, restaurant Jahangiri on simple and division benches.
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The case
A division bench led by the chief judge of the IHC, Sardar Muhammad Sarfraz Dogar, on September 16, had prevented judge Jahangiri from exercising his functions when she began the procedure on a petition which accuses her of holding a doubtful diploma of LLB.
It was the first time in the history of Pakistan that a high court did not prevent his own judge in the delivery of the business – an order that his lawyer called for a blow to judicial independence.
On September 19, five IHC judges, including judge Jahangiri, went to the Supreme Court in person to deposit distinct constitutional petitions, making eleven different prayers, including a requesting the cancellation of the CIH order to jump Jahangiri from the judicial work.
And then, on September 25, the University of Karachi canceled the judge’s LLB diploma in the light of a previous decision of his union, further complicating the situation.
Apart from the court, a journalist questioned Jahangiri on the decision of the University of Karachi to cancel his law diploma. “I have already filed a request before the high court of the Sindh,” he replied. “It is amazing that they cancel a diploma after 34 years. It has never happened in world history. ”
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Judge Jahangiri described the controversy of “political victimization”, linking it to its role in March 2024 IHC Letter of the judges on the supervision of the judges and his work as judge of the electoral court whose decisions had turned upside down the candidates of the ruling party.
