Five judges of the Superior Court of Islamabad (IHC): namely, Judges Mohsin Akhtar Kayani, Babar Sattar, Tariq Mahmood Jahangiri, Saman Rifat and Ejaz Ishaq Khan, presented separate requests in the Supreme Court (SC) on Friday.
Until now, Dawn.com He has obtained copies from Judges Kayani, Sattar, Jahangiri and Khan requests, all of which have the same request.
In their requests, the judges moved the SC to declare that the administrative powers could not “deploy to undermine or overcome the judicial powers” of the judges of the Superior Court.
In addition, they asked the Apex court to declare that a president of the Superior Court “was not authorized to constitute banks or transfer cases” once a bank of the Superior Court was assigned.
In addition, the requests sought the statement that the President of the Superior Court “cannot exclude the available judges from the list, at will, and use the power to issue a list to expel judges to perform judicial functions.”
The SC was also urged to declare “that the constitution of the banks, the transfer of cases and the issuance of the list can only be made in accordance with the rules adopted by the entire Superior Court of article 202 (Rules of Procedure), read with article 192 (1) (Constitution of the Superior Court) of the Constitution.”
The requests also asked the Apex court to declare that “decision -making” regarding the constitution of banks, the issuance of the list and transfer of cases of cases could not “rest only in the hands of the president of the Supreme Court.”
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