ISLAMABAD: After a long hearing, the Supreme Court of Pakistan rejected the petitions against the Practice and Procedure Act and declared it legal.
In the live broadcast of the hearing, Chief Justice of Pakistan Qazi Faiz Isa read out the safe verdict. He said that the decision is by 10/5, with a majority decision of 10 to 5, the Act is upheld.
Justice Qazi Faiz Isa said that the detailed decision of the Supreme Court Practice and Procedure case will be issued later. The Full Court has held 5 hearings on petitions against the Act.
A dissenting note was written by Justice Ijazul Ahsan, Justice Muneeb Akhtar, Justice Mazahir Naqvi, Justice Ayesha Malik and Justice Shahid Waheed.
Right of appeal shall remain in cases under Article 183A. Article 183A cases were decided by a ratio of 9/6.
Earlier, the full court of the Supreme Court heard the Practice and Procedure Bill case and reserved its verdict after the arguments were completed.
Chief Justice Qazi Faiz Isa remarked that they will consult with each other, if there is a consensus, they will pronounce the decision today, but consider the decision safe and it will be pronounced later. Later it was informed that the verdict will be delivered at 5:30.
Earlier in the hearing, Attorney General Mansoor Usman Awan told the court that due to the decisions of the Supreme Court, the country has lost more than 600 billion rupees, on which Justice Shahid Waheed remarked that you want to charge us Supreme Court. The court made law on the cases in which there was no merit, you should now make it legal.
Qazi Faiz Isa said that we should have the courage to listen to criticism, you should not have said the word charge sheet, they are only telling the facts of the case, some good things may have been done in 183. Not many good works have been done, the right of appeal has been given in one hundred and eighty-three cases.
During the hearing, Justice Muneeb Akhtar raised the question that no court can terminate the legal right at the administrative level, to which the Chief Justice said that if you talk out of assumptions, Justice Muneeb replied, "My question is not on assumptions, but on future reality." .
Chief Justice Qazi Faiz Isa said that I want to admit that it was my mistake to form a full court. Even when an eight-member bench was formed, the same question of appeal had to be raised. No judge objected to the full court and not to the eight-member bench.
During the practice and procedure case, Chief Justice Qazi Faizaisa remarked that if Parliament wanted to, it could have taken a step forward. Parliament did not take the step because it had faith in us. Parliament respected and kept the Supreme Court. Not enemies, of course she doesn't consider us as enemies either.
Justice Qazi Faizaisa said that don't try to fight one institution with another institution, we will do the interpetition when the time comes. , you just focus on that.
The Attorney General said that the Supreme Court took 232 suo motu notices since 1973, the Supreme Court took suo motu notices on corruption after declaring the steel mill privatization invalid, steel mills were in profit when suo motu was taken, 206 steel mills from Sumoto to date. has already done damage, on which Justice Mazahir Naqvi said that this action cannot be made a charge sheet against the Supreme Court.
Justice Muneeb Akhtar said that what is the relationship between the steel mill case and the current case? While Justice Ayesha Malik said that this discussion was held in the Parliament at the time of legislation? The record of the debate in Parliament has not yet been provided.