A larger bench of the Supreme Court will resume proceedings regarding implementation of orders passed in the suo motu case on law and order in Karachi, at its Karachi registry on Wednesday. PHOTO: EXPRESS/RASHID AJMERI
KARACHI:
A larger bench of the Supreme Court (SC) will resume proceedings regarding implementation of orders passed in the suo motu case on law and order in Karachi, at its Karachi registry on Wednesday.
Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry will head the five-member bench, which also comprises Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja, Justice Gulzar Ahmed, Justice Muhammad Athar Saeed and Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed, as its members.
Around 150 different petitions, miscellaneous applications and reports are fixed and expected to be taken up by the bench over the next three days, according to the roster.
Notices have been issued to the Attorney General of Pakistan, Sindh's advocate general and prosecutor general, the Election Commission secretary, the director general of National Database and Registration Authority, members of the Sindh High Court's inspection team-II, the provincial home secretary, chief secretary and the inspector general of police.
The SC registrar's office has also issued notice to the city government's Settlement Survey and Land Record Department director, the Sindh Board of Revenue's land utilisation department and the Karachi Development Authority's land department director to appear with their reports on progress made in compliance with the orders passed earlier. The proceedings are based on a suo motu notice taken by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry after the city went through one of its bloodiest summers in August 2011.
The five-judges had passed a detailed judgment which contained various orders and directions on how to control lawlessness in the port city. A year later, the apex court had initiated follow-up proceedings to see to what extent the authorities at different levels had implemented its orders. The proceedings, starting today, are a part of the follow-up to check the implementation of the court's orders.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 28th, 2013.
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