A nine-member bigger bench, headed by CJP Qazi Faez Isa, will hear 12-year-old reference on Dec 12
- 9-member bench, headed by CJP, to listen to reference.
- Final listening to of reference was held on Nov 11, 2022.
- SC to additionally hear IHC ex-judge Shaukat Siddiqui plea on removing.
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court docket is ready to take up the 12-year-old presidential reference on revisiting the controversial demise sentence awarded to former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto subsequent week, The Information reported Friday.
A nine-member bigger bench of the Supreme Court docket, headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Qazi Faez Isa, will hear the presidential reference on reconsideration of Bhutto’s demise sentence judgment on December 12.
The choice to repair the moment case was made underneath Part 2(1) of the Supreme Court docket (Observe and Process) Act, 2023, by a three-member committee comprising CJP Isa, Justice Sardar Tariq Masood and Justice Ijazul Ahsan.
In line with Supreme Court docket Registrar Jazeela Aslam, the opposite members of the bigger bench are Justice Masood, Justice Mansoor Ali Shah, Justice Yahya Afridi, Justice Aminud Din Khan, Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhail, Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar, Justice Syed Hasan Azhar Rizvi, and Justice Musarrat Hilali.
It’s pertinent to say that former president Asif Ali Zardari, on April 2, 2011, had approached the apex court docket by way of a presidential reference underneath Article 186 of the Structure to hunt its opinion on revisiting the trial of Pakistan Peoples Social gathering (PPP) founder Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. The final listening to of the reference was held on November 11, 2022.
Earlier, an 11-member bigger bench of the apex court docket, headed by former chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, had carried out 5 hearings within the presidential reference.
Babar Awan, the then federal regulation minister within the PPP regime, had earlier appeared because the federal authorities’s lawyer within the case and offered prolonged arguments. Nonetheless, on January 17, 2012, Awan’s regulation apply license was suspended for criticising the court docket’s order within the Memogate case. Later, the case was adjourned because of a change of counsel who have been showing within the prompt reference.
In the meantime, the Supreme Court docket has additionally mounted the petition of sacked Islamabad Excessive Court docket (IHC) Decide Shaukat Siddiqui difficult his removing for misconduct on December 14.