IHC judges seek SJC meeting over ‘interference’ in judicial affairs - Expert Analysis
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00:00 Viewers, you are obviously hearing a lot of debate on this, but our main objective is that instead of unnecessary debate,
00:08 the essence of the letter should be presented to you.
00:13 The opening line of the letter is not complaining, what it is saying is that
00:18 "We are writing to seek guidance from the Supreme Judicial Council
00:23 with regard to the duty of a judge to report and respond to actions on behalf of members of the Executive,
00:30 including operatives of intelligence agencies that seek to interfere with the discharge of his or her official functions and qualify as intimidations,
00:40 as well as the duty to report any such actions that come to his or her attention in relation to colleagues and/or the members of the courts of the other High Court Supervisors.
00:52 The main objective of the opening line is that we are writing to the Supreme Judicial Council to seek guidance.
01:03 In this, he is also explaining further, this is paragraph number 5,
01:07 "We will also note that the Code of Conduct of Judges prescribed by the Supreme Judicial Council
01:14 provides no guidance on how judges must react to and/or report incidents that tend to amount to intimidation and interfere with judicial independence."
01:26 Basically, he is saying that there is no such thing in our Code of Conduct that we can use.
01:34 If someone is being threatened or threatened, then they will bring their complaint.
01:42 After this, he also gives reference to the case of Justice Shaukat Siddiqui,
01:48 he has given reference to it because it has recently happened.
01:52 And in it, the decision of the Supreme Court, in paragraph number 26, it has been explained very clearly
02:00 that Justice Shaukat Siddiqui has put serious allegations, which have also been mentioned in the opinion of the Supreme Judicial Council,
02:07 that the DG ISI, Major Faiz Ameed and his subordinates wanted to get a special decision made on the Faizabad Darna case,
02:13 Bol Media Group case, Exec case, the former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Marjum Nawaz's cases.
02:21 If the Supreme Judicial Council had reached the conclusion after the inquiry that Justice Shaukat Siddiqui has put false allegations,
02:28 then they would have been accused of misconduct.
02:32 But without the inquiry, it cannot be said that they have put false allegations.
02:38 Viewers, it has been explained that the integrity of the Supreme Judicial Council,
02:44 then Article 210 of the Constitution is also mentioned in front of you.
02:48 The Council has all the powers,
02:52 that for the purpose of inquiring into any matter, the Council shall have the same power
02:57 as the Supreme Court has to issue directions or orders for securing the attendance of any person
03:03 or the discovery or production of any document or any such direction or other order shall be enforceable
03:10 as if it had been issued by the Supreme Court.
03:13 You can call any person from Pakistan for investigation, you can call any document from any place in Pakistan.
03:21 So, the fundamental purpose of the Fourth Slave Act, which I have understood,
03:26 there is an issue, that they have mentioned an incident, Justice Shaukat Siddiqui,
03:31 you have also made such incidents, so instead of discussing it politically,
03:36 we have to find a solution to its forward-looking approach, fundamentally.
03:40 First, we have to collect the incidents, that what did the Supreme Court Chief Justice do?
03:49 No, the Supreme Court Chief Justice has already made his statement,
03:54 so we are talking about that.
03:56 He has left, Umar Atta Abnayal has left.
04:00 He has mentioned it, he said, I have discussed it, nothing happened to you,
04:05 nothing will happen to you, so he did not stop after that.
04:08 He has also read it in the letter.
04:10 No, no, it is written in it.
04:12 But now...
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06:00 So, let's hope for the good,
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07:08 It is a good thing.
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