Chief Justice Umar Atta Bandial has said in his remarks that the events of May 9 benefited that the rhetoric against the judiciary stopped.
This was said by Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial during the hearing on the petitions of Chairman PTI Imran Khan, Abid Zuberi and others against the Audio Leaks Commission in the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
A 5-member larger bench headed by Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial is conducting the hearing, which also includes Justice Ijazul Hassan, Justice Muneeb Akhtar, Justice Shahid Waheed and Justice Hasan Azhar Rizvi.
Attorney General’s objection to the involvement of the Chief Justice
When the hearing started, Attorney General of Pakistan Mansoor Usman Awan objected to the inclusion of the Chief Justice in the bench and said that it is requested that the Chief Justice should not be a part of this bench.
Attorney General should not interfere with administrative authority: Chief Justice
Chief Justice Umar Attabandial inquired that you mean that I should leave the bench? Judiciary is the guardian of basic human rights, you should not interfere with our administrative authority, we have full respect for the government, the government hastily enacted legislation to regulate the powers of the Chief Justice, how the government can select judges for its own purposes. can Your request is respectable, the post of Chief Justice is a constitutional post, I knew you would raise this objection, Judiciary is not subordinate to the federal government, there is separation of powers in the constitution.
Attempts were made to split the judges: Chief Justice
Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandyal raised the question that how was the action taken without consulting the Chief Justice? Even in the Commission of Inquiry Act 1956, there was no consultation, this is a practice, the judge for the commission will be nominated by the Chief Justice, 3 such notifications were withdrawn which did not include the consultation of the Chief Justice, 5 decisions of the Supreme Court in this regard. are also present, please tell the government to follow the spirit of the constitution, consultation was not called for in the Commission of Inquiry Act 2017, an attempt was made to create a rift among the judges without knowing it, the government has included bail and family members in the commission. Also put meters.
Attorney General Mansoor Usman Awan said that this matter can be resolved.
The Chief Justice said that if it is so then go and solve it, then we will also help you.
Attorney General Mansoor Usman Awan said that the full court was requested in the case of Practice and Procedure Act law among others.
The Chief Justice of Pakistan said that in the Practice and Procedure Act, it is written in the law that there should be a bench of 5 judges, your request for a full court was also against this law, we made a bench of 8 judges.
Attorney General Mansoor Usman Awan said that the law called for a bench of 5 judges, so why were there not 5 judges?
The Chief Justice left the sentence incomplete
The Chief Justice of Pakistan said that in the election case, as told to you, if you had consulted us, we would have helped you, respect the constitution, you will interfere in the affairs of the judiciary without asking us!…, along with that. The Chief Justice left the sentence incomplete.
The events of May 9 benefited: Chief Justice
Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial said that the honorable Attorney General! You and your client respect the federal government, respect the institutions including the judiciary, the benefit of the events of May 9 is that the rhetoric against the judiciary stopped, the federal government resolved things according to the constitution. If so, what objection can we have?
If there is a dispute, the Attorney General should come prepared: Chief Justice
The Chief Justice was angry with the Attorney General and said that if there is a dispute, then the Attorney General should come prepared.
Government should admit that one of our agencies tapped the phones: Lawyer
Shoaib Shaheen, Abid Zubiri’s lawyer in the Supreme Court, argued that phone tapping itself is an unconstitutional act, the code of inquiry commission has nowhere written that who tapped the phones? The government is giving the impression that the process of phone tapping is correct, the government should admit that one of our agencies did the phone tapping.
The Chief Justice of Pakistan said that there is a Benazir Bhutto government case on phone tapping, Justice Qazi Faiz Isa has also set the rules in the case, who will determine which judge violated the code of conduct?
Shoaib Shaheen, Abid Zubari’s lawyer, said that this authority belongs to the Supreme Judicial Council under Article 209, the authority of the Judicial Council was given to the Inquiry Commission.
Justice Muneeb Akhtar said that the tapping of telephone conversation is an illegal act, it is also against human dignity under Article 14, independence of judiciary is also in question in this case.
The Chief Justice constituted a larger bench
Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial had constituted a larger bench on the petitions against the alleged Audio Leaks Inquiry Commission.
Petitions were filed by Imran Khan, Supreme Court President Bar Abid Zubiri, Riaz Hanif Rahi and Muqtadar Shabbir against the judicial commission set up to probe the audio leaks.
The judicial commission constituted by the government held its first meeting on Monday and its next meeting has been called for tomorrow (Saturday) at 10 am at the Supreme Court building.
