Nine more appointments in IHC challenged

ISLAMABAD: An application was filed in the Supreme Court on Saturday, seeking inclusion of another nine senior officers of the Islamabad High Court in the list of 74 whose appointments have been challenged in the apex court.

The fresh petition was filed in the Supreme Court by Advocate Arif Chaudhry on behalf of Advocate Chaudhry Muhammad Akram who had also served as the vice president of the Islamabad High Court Bar Association.

The petitioner requested the apex court to implead the nine additional officers as parties in the case.

The petitioner has pleaded before the Supreme Court to declare these appointments as illegal and without any legal authority.

The fresh application was filed in view of the recent rejoinder filed on behalf of the IHC administration in the Supreme Court.

The court administration alleged that the petitioner had approached the apex court with mala fide intention with a view to targeting particular individuals.

In the reply the high court management had also pleaded before the Supreme Court that the act of challenging a number of appointments it made was aimed at stigmatising and scandalising the office of the Chief Justice of the high court since the appointments in a similar fashion were made in 2008 by the then chief justice of the high court. It requested the court to dismiss the petition.

Chaudhry Akram named 76 individuals comprising almost the entire staff of the high court from the additional registrars to peon as respondents in the petition.

Published in Kaka, February 22nd, 2015