Supreme Court takes notice of threat issued to Justice Isa
Apex court bench 1 to take up suo motu case tomorrow
Justice Qazi Faez Isa. PHOTO: FILE
ISLAMABAD:
The country’s top judge has taken notice of a video clip in which a citizen was shown using derogatory language against Supreme Court judge Qazi Faez Isa and decided to take up the suo motu case for hearing tomorrow (Friday).
“[Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed] has taken notice of a video clip viral on social media containing derogatory, contemptuous and scandalous language against the institution of judiciary and honorable judges,” said a press release issued on Thursday.
The Supreme Court took notice of the footage doing the rounds on the social media a day after Justice Isa’s wife Sarina Isa filed an application at Islamabad’s Secretariat Police Station to register a first information report (FIR).
Sarina Isa complained that her husband, Justice Isa, had received a death threat via a video in which the intimidator – identified as Agha Iftikhar Uddin Mirza – can be heard saying: “Isa should be shot publicly.”
“Whoever is caught in embezzlement, whether it be Faez Isa or anyone else, should be executed through a firing squad. Only those who indulge in such activities must be hanged and the entire city should be invited to watch it,” the person in the video said according to Justice Isa’s wife.
“People should be asked to come to Fawara Chowk [in Rawalpindi] to see someone was being hanged,” he allegedly added. Sarina claimed that many powerful people were not happy with her husband and she suspected the death threat was in continuation of what they have been facing.
Last week, the top court had quashed a presidential reference filed against Justice Isa as well as the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) proceedings that were started on the basis of the reference.
A ten-judge full court had issued the verdict after hearing for over six months a slew of petitions filed against the reference that claimed that Justice Isa had committed misconduct by not disclosing his family members properties in the United Kingdom in his wealth statement.
“Reference No 1 of 2019 is declared to be of no legal effect whatsoever and stands quashed, and in consequence, thereof the proceedings pending in the SJC against the petitioner [Justice Isa] including the show-cause notice dated 17.07.2019 issued to him stand abated,” said a short order.
Justice Qazi Faez Isa has received death threat, says wife
In the split verdict, announced by the presiding judge Umar Ata Bandial, seven out of the ten judges referred the matter to the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) for initiating tax proceedings against Justice Isa’s spouse and children for not disclosing their UK properties to the tax authorities while filing their returns.
However, three judges, while quashing the reference, did not endorse the majority view: referring the matter to the FBR. Out of the three judges, Justice Yahya Afridi dismissed Justice Isa’s petition but allowed superior bars petitions against the reference.
Justice Isa’s wife, in the application, said that a complaint was submitted by a person named Abdul Waheed Dogar against her husband.
“My husband asked who Abdul Waheed Dogar is but no one in the government disclosed that for whom Dogar worked,” she said, claiming that Special Assistant to the PM on Accountability Shahzad Akbar has met Dogar.
She urged the police officials to investigate whereabouts of Dogar, who, according to her, was being used by “some very powerful people.”
“I suspect that whoever ordered the journalist Mr Ahmed Noorani to be beaten up is the real mastermind and the person who wants to eliminate my husband,” she alleged.
She urged the police officials to arrest those “powerful people” who wanted to get rid of Justice Isa, calling it the “worst kind of terrorism”.
The country’s top judge has taken notice of a video clip in which a citizen was shown using derogatory language against Supreme Court judge Qazi Faez Isa and decided to take up the suo motu case for hearing tomorrow (Friday).
“[Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed] has taken notice of a video clip viral on social media containing derogatory, contemptuous and scandalous language against the institution of judiciary and honorable judges,” said a press release issued on Thursday.
The Supreme Court took notice of the footage doing the rounds on the social media a day after Justice Isa’s wife Sarina Isa filed an application at Islamabad’s Secretariat Police Station to register a first information report (FIR).
Sarina Isa complained that her husband, Justice Isa, had received a death threat via a video in which the intimidator – identified as Agha Iftikhar Uddin Mirza – can be heard saying: “Isa should be shot publicly.”
“Whoever is caught in embezzlement, whether it be Faez Isa or anyone else, should be executed through a firing squad. Only those who indulge in such activities must be hanged and the entire city should be invited to watch it,” the person in the video said according to Justice Isa’s wife.
“People should be asked to come to Fawara Chowk [in Rawalpindi] to see someone was being hanged,” he allegedly added. Sarina claimed that many powerful people were not happy with her husband and she suspected the death threat was in continuation of what they have been facing.
Last week, the top court had quashed a presidential reference filed against Justice Isa as well as the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) proceedings that were started on the basis of the reference.
A ten-judge full court had issued the verdict after hearing for over six months a slew of petitions filed against the reference that claimed that Justice Isa had committed misconduct by not disclosing his family members properties in the United Kingdom in his wealth statement.
“Reference No 1 of 2019 is declared to be of no legal effect whatsoever and stands quashed, and in consequence, thereof the proceedings pending in the SJC against the petitioner [Justice Isa] including the show-cause notice dated 17.07.2019 issued to him stand abated,” said a short order.
Justice Qazi Faez Isa has received death threat, says wife
In the split verdict, announced by the presiding judge Umar Ata Bandial, seven out of the ten judges referred the matter to the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) for initiating tax proceedings against Justice Isa’s spouse and children for not disclosing their UK properties to the tax authorities while filing their returns.
However, three judges, while quashing the reference, did not endorse the majority view: referring the matter to the FBR. Out of the three judges, Justice Yahya Afridi dismissed Justice Isa’s petition but allowed superior bars petitions against the reference.
Justice Isa’s wife, in the application, said that a complaint was submitted by a person named Abdul Waheed Dogar against her husband.
“My husband asked who Abdul Waheed Dogar is but no one in the government disclosed that for whom Dogar worked,” she said, claiming that Special Assistant to the PM on Accountability Shahzad Akbar has met Dogar.
She urged the police officials to investigate whereabouts of Dogar, who, according to her, was being used by “some very powerful people.”
“I suspect that whoever ordered the journalist Mr Ahmed Noorani to be beaten up is the real mastermind and the person who wants to eliminate my husband,” she alleged.
She urged the police officials to arrest those “powerful people” who wanted to get rid of Justice Isa, calling it the “worst kind of terrorism”.