A week after getting a revised notice from the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC), Justice Sayyed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi Thursday challenged the second show-cause notice which he believes is due to “politically motivated complaints” filed against him. The judge in the petition, filed via his legal team, has also responded to the 10 allegations put forward against him in the revised showcase notice.
In the plea, Justice Naqvi contends that the complaints against him are politically motivated due to the verdict on the Punjab elections taken after the suo motu proceedings initiated by former chief justice Umar Ata Bandial during the hearing of the Ghulam Mehmood Dogar case The judge further contends that the Shehbaz Sharif-led federal government wanted to delay the polls and his cabinet later started a “malicious campaign” against him. He also contended that the Pakistan Bar Council and other organisations or lawyers met with then-PM and after that, they started “targeting” him. “It is evident that the so-called complaints filed against the Petitioner before the SJC are politically motivated.
