Islamabad:
The association of the bar of the High Court of Islamabad (IHCBA) also approached the Supreme Court against a new seniority list published by the former chief judge, Aamer Farooq, after the transfer of three new Judges at the high court of the capital earlier this month.
The constitutional request filed under article 184 (3) of the Constitution urges the Supreme Court to declare that the president has no unlimited powers under article 200, paragraph 1, to transfer the judges. The judges cannot be transferred from a high court to another without public interest.
The petition requests that the judges transferred to other high lessons should be recognized as judges of these respective courts until they take a new oath.
He also seeks to cancel the appointment of the acting chief of the IHC, Sardar Muhammad Sarfraz Dogar; To count seniority only after the new judges were sworn in and to order the IHC registrar to issue a revised seniority list.
The Ministry of Law, February 1, made the notification for the transfer of judge Dogar, judge Khadim Hussain Soomro and the judge Muhammad Asif – in a respectful manner of the High Court of Lahore, the High Court of the Sindh and the High courtyard of Balutchistan – at the CI.
Later, former IHC chief judge, Aamer Farooq, has published a new seniority list in which Dogar judge appeared as the main judge. Five IHC judges, including the former primary judge, Mohsin Akhtar Kayani, filed representations against this decision, which Farooq judge rejected.
The judges later approached the Supreme Court against the new seniority list.
