LAHORE – Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Saqib Nisar has transferred the appeal against Lahore High Court’s (LHC) acquittal of a man convicted for stabbing law student Khadija Siddiqui to Justice Asif Saeed Khosa.
The CJP in Sou Motu notice had summoned the case’s record a day after Justice Sardar Ahmed Naeem of the LHC, through a short order, acquitted Shah Hussain of all charges after accepting his appeal against the five-year sentence handed to him by a sessions court.
Hussain was convicted last year for brutally attacking then 23-year-old law student Khadija with a knife in Lahore. His seven-year sentence by a judicial magistrate had been commuted to a two-year sentence by a trial court in March this year.
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During the hearing of the case today (Sunday), the top judge questioned Hussain’s father, “How did you run a campaign against the apex court and pass a resolution against it?”
“If this had happened with some lawyer’s daughter, would you have behaved the same way?” he added.
CJP’s comments came in regards to a unanimous Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) resolution passed by Hussain’s father against the CJP’s Suo Motu notice of the acquittal.
The unanimous LHCBA resolution, which was passed by Shah Hussain’s father Advocate Tanveer Hashmi, had stated that since Khadija had the option of approaching the apex court against the LHC ruling, there was no need for the CJP to have taken notice of the matter based on “propaganda” in social media and electronic media.
