ISLAMABAD – Supreme Court judge Justice Qazi Faez Isa filed a plea in the apex court on Monday seeking constitution of a full court to hear reference filed against him.
In his petition, the judge contended that the chairman and members of the Supreme Judicial Council were not authorized to conduct hearings on presidential references concerning his offshore properties.
In another plea, the judge challenged the Supreme Judicial Council’s observations against him in a verdict regarding the dismissal of the reference against him for writing letters to President Arif Alvi.
“The council’s order states that the petitioner selectively reveals the truth, discloses without permission a private conversation, pretends ignorance about matters known to him, acts in bad taste, employees distasteful methods, unnecessarily dragging the prime minister and his different spouses and children into the matter, is presumptive, may have a sense of persecution, a sense of hounding, might have overstepped the sense of propriety, stress might have aggravated his sense of harassment and might have contributed towards outrunning of his discretion,” he stated in the petition.
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The judge said that he wasn’t even summoned or told about the council meeting on August 19 and had no idea about it.
Faez Isa said the court order was directly uploaded to the top court’s website, which is looked after by Chief Justice Asif Saeed Khosa.
The Supreme Court judge said the presidential reference against him for owning foreign properties can no longer be heard by the chairperson of the Supreme Judicial Council, Justice Khosa, and its other members because they “are no longer competent to hear it”.
He said the members have shown “bias” against him as evident by their remarks in the reference dismissal verdict.
Last week, the Supreme Judicial Council had dismissed a reference against Justice Isa, stating that the allegations against him were not “serious or grave enough to constitute misconduct sufficient for his removal”.
The Council had heard a reference alleging that Justice Isa had violated the code of conduct for judges by writing two letters to President of Pakistan, Dr Arif Alvi.
