Ijaz Kakakhel
Chief Justice of Pakistan Qazi Faez Isa has summoned the Supreme Judicial Council meeting to discuss complaints filed against superior court judges including Justice Sayyed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi today at 11.30am. This will be the first meeting of the SJC under CJP Isa and was convened after a gap of over 3 years.
This will be the first meeting of the SJC under CJP Isa that will take place on Friday. Headed by CJP Isa, SJC also consists of two senior judges of the apex court — Justice Tariq Masood and Justice IjazUl Ahsan. SJC is the only constitutional forum that has powers to remove judges of superior courts on different charges. Besides Justice Naqvi, complaints were filed against other judges of the superior court.
Several misconduct complaints were filed against Justice Naqvi during the tenure of former chief justice Umar Ata Bandial. Justice (retd) Bandial had referred the matter to Justice Tariq Masood for examining it and giving his legal opinion.
Initially, the misconduct complaint was filed against Justice Naqvi with the SJC by a Lahore-based lawyer Muhammad Dawood. Later on, the Pakistan Bar Council had also announced filing complaint against the senior judge.
PBC Vice Chairman Haroon Rashid filed a misconduct complaint against the SC judge after an audio leak emerged purportedly featuring a conversation about the fixation of the case before a particular bench or judge with former Punjab chief minister Pervaiz Elahi.
