The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday sought previous judicial precedents, where details of the court martial proceedings were provided to the court.
IHC Justice Khadim Hussain Soomro heard the plea for the production of the details of the charge sheet against former Pakistan Air Force (PAF) officer Air Marshal (retd) Jawad Saeed, who had been given 14-year jail term by a military court for leaking sensitive information.
The petitioner's lawyer Abdul Waheed Advocate, besides the additional attorney general and the PAF legal officials appeared in the court on Thursday. During the hearing, the PAF officials did not present the record of the court martial proceedings and the charge sheet against Jawad Saeed.
The PAF officials told the court that according to the PAF Act, the record of the sentence given and the record of the charge sheet could not be provided. The petitioner's lawyer said that this had never happened before under their own law. However, the PAF officials denied that claim.
The petitioner's lawyer pleaded to the court that injustice had been committee in the case against Jawad Saeed, adding that neither he was given the lawyer of his choice, nor the record. He said that Jawad Saeed's family was also not informed.
Justice Soomro told the petitioner's lawyer to present court precedents at the next hearing in which the record had been provided in such a case. The lawyer replied that he would present the Supreme Court's decisions and court precedents, adding that full bench judgments were available in similar cases.
Justice Soomro asked the lawyer to present the court precedents in the form of para-wise comments and adjourned further hearing of the matter until June 17.
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