ISLAMABAD: SCP has set aside on Friday (22nd March, 2024) the dismissal of IHC’s senior puisne ex-judge Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui.
It may be recalled that Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) had removed him from service for delivering a speech at Rawalpindi Bar Association in which he claimed that ISI was involved in influencing the judges of superior courts of Pakistan and forming benches of choice.
On Friday (22nd March, 2024) SCP has set aside the SJC’s opinion about Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui and the president (Alvi)’s notification issued on 11th day of October, 2018 noting: “The action, as it was taken, against Justice Siddiqui constituted mala fide and the SJC had acted coram non judice.”
Observing that Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui could not be restored to the position of judge as he had attained the retirement age (during the hearing of the case) SCP held: “Consequently, Justice Siddiqui shall be deemed to have retired as a judge of the IHC and he will be entitled to receive all the benefits and privileges due to a retired judge, by allowing these petitions in the above term.”
It is pertinent to mention here that in the month of January this year, a five-member bench – led by CJP Qazi Faez Isa and including Justice Aminuddin Khan, Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhail, Justice Hasan Azhar Rizvi, and Justice Irfan Saadat – had reserved its verdict on Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui’s plea against his removal.
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