{"id":74035,"date":"2024-03-22T08:23:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T08:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/sc-sets-aside-dismissal-of-former-ihc-judge-shaukat-aziz-siddiqui\/"},"modified":"2024-03-22T08:23:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T08:23:05","slug":"sc-sets-aside-dismissal-of-former-ihc-judge-shaukat-aziz-siddiqui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/sc-sets-aside-dismissal-of-former-ihc-judge-shaukat-aziz-siddiqui\/","title":{"rendered":"SC sets aside dismissal of former IHC judge Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Supreme Court (SC) on Friday set aside the dismissal of former Islamabad High Court (IHC) senior puisne judge Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui.<\/p>\n

In January, a five-member bench \u2014 led by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa and including Justice Aminuddin Khan, Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhail, Justice Hasan Azhar Rizvi, and Justice Irfan Saadat \u2014 had reserved its verdict<\/a> on Siddiqui\u2019s plea against his removal. The proceedings of the case were broadcast live on the apex court\u2019s website.<\/p>\n

In his petition, the former judge had challenged a decision<\/a> of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) about his dismissal from service and an Oct 11, 2018 notification under which he was removed for a speech<\/a> he had delivered at Rawalpindi Bar Association.<\/p>\n

In his speech, Justice Siddiqui had accused the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of influencing the court proceedings and forming benches of choice.<\/p>\n

Siddiqui had nominated seven individuals in his amended plea<\/a>, however, the court remarked that three others \u2014 former chief of army staff Qamar Javed Bajwa, and two retired brigadiers Faisal Marwat and Tahir Wafai \u2014 had no direct connection with the case.<\/p>\n

On January 22, former ISI director general retired Lt Gen Faiz Hameed submitted his response<\/a> to Justice Siddiqui\u2019s petition, wherein he rejected the allegations of his involvement in constituting IHC benches to prolong the detention of former premier Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz. The ex-spymaster claimed Justice Siddiqui had dragged him into the case for no reason.<\/p>\n

In its written verdict<\/a>, the SC said that the SJC\u2019s opinion about Siddiqui\u2019s dismissal and the subsequent notification issued on Oct 11, 2018 were \u201cset aside\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cConsequently, Justice Siddiqui shall be deemed to have retired as a judge
\nof 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,\u201d the order said.<\/p>\n\n

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The Supreme Court (SC) on Friday set aside the dismissal of former Islamabad High Court (IHC) senior puisne judge Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui. In January, a five-member bench \u2014 led by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa and including Justice Aminuddin Khan, Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhail, Justice Hasan Azhar Rizvi, and Justice Irfan Saadat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2024\/03\/22130737f642b47.png?r=131218","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t