Case against pm: Lawyer asks for seven-judge bench

LAHORE: A civil miscellaneous application, requesting the Lahore High Court chief justice to constitute a seven-member bench to hear a plea against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, was filed in the LHC on Tuesday. Petitioner Barrister Javed Iqbal Jafree has accused Sharif of money laundering. On Tuesday, he filed the application before a five-judge full bench requesting that his 26-year-old pending petition be heard by a seven-member bench. Jafree said the bench was deciding the maintainability of the petition whereas, he said, the bench did not have the jurisdiction to seek arguments over maintainability. Barrister Jafree requested the chief justice to constitute a seven-member bench for further hearing and to pass a decision on the petition without taking up the issue of maintainability. In his petition, the lawyer alleged that Sharif was involved in laundering money. He requested the court to hold an investigation.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 20^th, 2015.