PBC forms bodies to identify corrupt judges

References will be filed after provincial committees submit their reports

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) formed committees at the provincial level on Sunday to identify corrupt judges. The committee will prepare their reports within a month and references will be filed against the judges they will identify.

After a meeting of the bar council in Islamabad , vice chairman Amjad Shah told reporters that committees had been formed in all four provinces to identify corrupt judges. “The names of the members of the committee will not be disclosed,” he added.

“These committees will prepare lists of corrupt and incompetent judges. On the basis of their reports, references will be filed against such judges with the Supreme Judicial Council.”



Shah said the names of the judges identified in the reports would also be kept secret until the references were filed.

“No character assassination will take place and the process of accountability will move from the higher judiciary to the lower.”

The chairman of the council’s executive committee, Hafiz Idrees, complained that the representation of lawyers in Judicial Commission of Pakistan was negligible. “Our representatives in the commission have no say in the appointment of judges,” he added.