Seven SC benches to hear key cases

Benches to hear NRO review, review plea of former NAB officials, plea against decision over president's eligibility.

Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Myhammad Chaudhry has constituted seven benches, including a 17-member larger bench, to hear a number of important cases in the coming week.

The larger bench, headed by the Supreme Court chief justice, will hear on October 13, the federation’s review plea over certain aspects of its decision on the now-defunct NRO. The bench will also take up cases of certain NRO beneficiaries.

The same bench will hear review pleas of former officials of the National Accountability Bureau who were removed from their jobs as a result of the apex court’s verdict. The same bench will take up another plea against the decision of the chief election commissioner over the president’s eligibility. Contempt of court proceedings against the law minister for non-implementation of NRO will also be heard by the larger bench.

Apart from the larger bench, other benches are as follows: the Chief Justice, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday, the second bench Justice Javed Iqbal, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali and Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali, third bench Justice Mian Shakirullah Jan,Justice Mahmood Akhtar Shahid Siddiqui and Justice Mian  Saqib Nisar, fourth bench Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa, fifth bench Justice Nasir ul Mulk, Justice Jawwad S Khawaja and Justice Rahmat Hussain Jafferi and the sixth bench of Justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmed,Justice Tariq Parvez.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 10^th, 2010.