Karachi:
The University of Karachi has canceled the LLB judge of the High Court LLB (IHC) Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri for the decision last year of its union.
Meanwhile, a division of the High Court of the Sindh (SHC) also rejected all the petitions contesting the judge’s diploma of the diploma due to the non-prostitution.
On August 31, 2024, the Union of the University of Karachi canceled the allegedly “invalid” degree of justice Jahangiri on the recommendations of the University University Means Committee (UFM). The SHC, September 5, 2024, suspended the decision of the university.
However, the university registrar published a “declaration” dated September 25, declaring that Tariq Mahmood, son of Qazi Muhammad Akram, had been found guilty of using unfair means in the late 1980s.
“”[He] was excluded for three years to admission to any university / college and appear in any university exam under the Disqualification Circular N ° 88 of 1989 and was never a student of Islamia Law College Karachi.
“In accordance with the union meeting held on August 31, 2024 Resolution of Vacuum No. 06, the LLB results and the degree of Tariq Mehmood bearing siege n ° 22857; registration No AIL-7124/87 is withdrawn and canceled. It is issued with the approval of vice-chancellor,” he added.
Furthermore, the SHC Bench Division hearing petitions against the union’s decision on August 31, issued a written order on Friday, rejecting a set of petitions filed against the cancellation of the Jahangiri law diploma on non-procédure.
Thursday, animated scenes were observed in SHC as a division bench including judge Mohammad Karim Khan Agha and judge Adnan -UL -Karim Memon refused to entertain the advocacy of Jahangiri – who appeared in person – to become part of procedures on the pleadings, questioning the anchoring of his degree.
The bench insisted on the fact that it would hear and decide first of all of the petitions.
In his written order, the bench noted that he had given the opportunity to hear all the advice for the petitioners on the question of maintaining their petitions; However, the advice deliberately chose not to take advantage of the occasion and rather left the courtroom while causing a rumpus.
“Such a driving is very obsolete. The registrar of this court immediately preserves all video surveillance recordings and any audio recording of 25.09.2025 inside and outside the CB-I audience room.
“Consequently, we have rejected all the aforementioned petitions for non-prostitution, for the above-mentioned reasons as well as all the requests listed / pending,” said the order.
The order declared that it is the responsibility of this court to determine how to regulate its own procedure, and it cannot be dictated by the defenders, adding that the court had decided that the preliminary objections and the question of maintainability are decided by a single joint order.
“Naturally, if the objections were valid, the question of maintainability may no longer remain relevant. Unfortunately, the scientist representing the parties, as well as other members of the bar, insisted that their objections were decided first.
“This court informed them that all questions would be heard and decided together as mentioned above.
He said the advice came out despite having had the opportunity to be heard, who, according to them, deliberately refused to take advantage of. Consequently, their petitions and any request listed are rejected for non-prostitution.
“In addition, they began to raise slogans against the judiciary and completely disrupted the decorum of the Court. Such conduct is very improper and is not expected by the higher members of the legal profession.
“Prima facie, such conduct is equivalent to an outrage in court. However, by indulgence and by showing a maximum judicial restriction, we have decided to refrain from publishing such opinions. It is expected that the Council concerned should maintain the decorum of the Court in the future,” he said.
On September 16, an IHC division bench including chief judge Sardar Muhammad Sarfraz Dogar and judge Muhammad Azam Khan prevented Judge Jahangiri from exercising his functions because he resumed a petition accusing the judge of holding a questionable diploma of LLB.
The judge challenged the decision of the Supreme Court, including the constitutional bench of five members (CB) led by Judge Amicin Khan will hear the case on September 29.
In a petition he deposited in the SHC, judge Jahangiri affirmed that the general context in which the illegal and mala of his LLB diploma had taken place was the unfailing judicial independence that he demonstrated.
“Two prominent examples stand out,” noted the petition. “First, the petitioner is one of the six signatories of the letter of 25.03.2024, written by judges of the Honorable IHC, in which detailed examples have been given interference and surveillance by federal government agencies (respondent n ° 5), including the installation of surveillance equipment in his house.
“It was such an unforeseen and cheeky attack against the independence of the judiciary that the Honorable Supreme Court of Pakistan instituted the SUO Motu N ° 1 affair of 2024 to examine this invasion and subversion of judicial independence, adopted various ordinances, and the case is still an under-plain.
“Secondly, the petitioner was one of the judges appointed as an electoral court for the territory of Islamabad, and his appointment was rigorously and systematically opposed by the winning candidates of the ruling party, who led to the transfer of the affairs of the electoral courts,” he added.
