Judges Sattar, Kayani had written letter to IHC CJ Farooq looking for contempt proceedings towards smear marketing campaign
- IHC constitutes benches to provoke contempt proceedings.
- IHC CJ Farooq-led bench will take up Justice Kayani’s letter.
- Growth comes after judges wrote letter to IHC CJ.
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad Excessive Courtroom (IHC) on Wednesday fashioned two separate bigger benches to provoke contempt proceedings on the smear social media marketing campaign towards the 2 senior judges — Justice Babar Sattar and Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani.
A bigger bench led by IHC Chief Justice Aamer Farooq and comprising Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb and Justice Arbab Muhammad Tahir will hear the matter of the social media marketing campaign towards Justice Kayani.
One other bench comprising Justice Kayani, Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri and Justice Sardar Ejaz Ishaq Khan will take the contempt of court docket case on social media drive towards Justice Sattar.
The event got here after the senior excessive court docket judges wrote letter to IHC CJ Farooq looking for contempt of proceedings towards these operating social media campaigns towards them.
Earlier, Prime Time News24 quoting sources reported that the excessive court docket had determined to transform the letter right into a contempt of court docket case after assigning it a diary quantity.
A social media marketing campaign was launched towards Justice Sattar claiming that the excessive court docket choose holds American citizenship. Nevertheless, the IHC in a press launch on April 28 refuted the claims.
The excessive court docket stated that Justice Sattar doesn’t maintain every other citizenship aside from Pakistan. It added {that a} “defamatory and baseless” marketing campaign was being run towards Justice Sattar on social media.
“Justice Babar Sattar’s spouse and kids are residents of Pakistan and the US. They have been residing within the US until 2021, however returned to Pakistan after Justice Babar Sattar was appointed as a choose of the IHC and now stay in Islamabad.”
The IHC, in its press launch, had stated that Justice Sattar’s confidential data is being posted and reposted on-line. It additional stated that the choose’s spouse and kids’s journey paperwork have been additionally uploaded on-line.
