ارتقاء گیمنگ سلاٹس,مصری ڈریمز ڈیلکس,پریوں کی کہانیوں پر مبنی سلاٹس,اردو سلاٹ مشینThe S
upreme Court on Tuesday issued notices to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman and former Prime Minister Imran Khan, Asad Umar and Fawad Chaudhry i
n the contempt of Electi
on Commission case. A three-member SC bench comprising Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial, Justice Ayesha A Malik and Justice Athar Minallah heard the case filed by the Electi
on Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to transfer all its contempt cases against PTI leaders from different high courts to a single one. During the course of proceedings, the bench remarked that the Electi
on Commission requested to transfer the cases pending in different high courts to one high court. The Electi
on Commission was of the opinion that they should prepare for local and general elections or had to fight cases in different courts, it added. The Chief Justice said that the Electi
on Commission also presented a judicial precedent of merging cases with the order of the S
upreme Court. The Electi
on Commission is relying on Article 186A, he added. He asked was there an example of the decision of the S
upreme Court to merge the cases of different high courts? The ECP counse
l responded that the S
upreme Court ordered consolidation of income tax cases pending in various high courts in 1999. Upon this, the Chief Justice said that clubbing of cases pending in different high courts must have the same point of law.
He asked who were the petitioners in contempt of Electi
on Commission cases i
n the high courts? The counsel replied that Imran Khan, Fawad Chaudhry and Asad Umar had filed cases against the Electi
on Commission i
n the different high courts. Justice Ayesha A Malik said that the S
upreme Court i
n the PEMRA cases had declared that the high court cases would continue and would not be clubbed. Justice Athar Minallah said that the S
upreme Court had clubbed all the cases of the high courts in Hajj assistants case.
The ECP counsel said that the cases of the same nature would have conflicting judgments in different high courts. Justice Ayesha said that the apex court would decide whe
n the conflicting decisions challenged before the S
upreme Court.
The Chief Justice asked under which constitutional authority did the S
upreme Court order clubbing of cases pending i
n the different high courts? The counsel said that the injunctions of the high courts i
n the contempt of Electi
on Commission case had also been challenged i
n the S
upreme Court. The court directed that the ECP petitions against the injunction of the high courts should also be fixed with this case. Subsequently, hearing of the case was adjourned for two weeks.The ECP in its petition had stated that it had issued contempt notices to PTI chairman Imran Khan as well as other party leaders including Asad Umar, Fawad Chaudhry i
n the months of August and September. However, these notices were challenged in high courts.
The ECP noted that under Section 10 of the Election Act, 2017, it had the authority to initiate contempt proceedings being a constitutional body.
The commission further stated that Imran and Fawad had challenged the contempt notices before the Lahore High Court’s Rawalpindi bench while Asad Umar had challenged it before the Sindh High Court. Another one was challenged before the
Islamabad High Court.