SC fixes Imran’s plea seeking judicial inquiry into May 9 mayhem for hearing
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- December 10, 2024
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A constitution bench of the Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday cleared the objections of the Registrar’s Office of former Prime Minister and founder of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan on the request of forming a judicial commission to investigate the May 9 incidents. The decision was made. A seven-member constitution bench headed by Justice Aminuddin Khan heard the case. Other members of the bench include Justice Jamal Khan Mandukhel, Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar, Justice Syed Hasan Azhar Rizvi,. PTI leader and prominent lawyer Hamid Khan represented the former prime minister in the case. Khan argued that the country was under an undeclared martial law because no one dared to investigate what actually happened on May 9, adding that the army was called in from time to time. Normalize the situation. Justice Mandukhel remarked that you are making a big statement regarding martial law.Also challenging Section 245 under which the army was called in, Advocate Khan replied that hundreds of FIRs were registered after May. 9 Argued that PTI is being walled up, Justice Mandukhel said which High Court did the petitioner approach? He replied that this is a matter of the whole of Pakistan, but it was the Registrar’s office. Later, Justice Aminuddin removed the registrar’s reservations and fixed the case for hearing.. Apart from this, Justice Aminuddin inquired whether the government is really interested in pursuing the contempt of court petition against the former prime minister. Additional Attorney General (AAG) Aamir Rehman responded that the federal government was serious about pursuing the contempt of court case against the jailed former prime minister, arguing that the PTI founder had taken the court order during the long march on May 25, 2022. violated