Sana accuses members of the Supreme Court of having “bias” against the PML-N.
It has been reported that the party’s legal staff will ask Justices Naqvi and Ahsan to step down from hearing cases involving Nawaz and other PML-N leaders.
Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah claimed on Wednesday that judges Ijazul Ahsan and Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi of the Supreme Court were prejudiced against the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N).
The top PML-N politician claimed in a statement that Justice Ahsan, who was monitoring the case against party leader Nawaz Sharif, “was not expected to render justice.”
He also questioned Justice Naqvi’s objectivity, saying that in the case the judge was hearing about audio leaks, there was now incontrovertible proof.
After audio leaks purportedly containing a conversation between the former Punjab chief minister Pervaiz Elahi and Justice Naqvi about the fixation of the case before a specific bench or judge surfaced, Justice Naqvi is now in charge of the bench in the case of misconduct in the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) against an apex court judge.
Sana added that both judges have rendered unfavourable rulings in a number of instances involving Nawaz and Shehbaz Sharif, including the Pak Patan allocation issue, the Panama case, the party leadership case, and the Ramzan Sugar Mills case.
In the legal and judicial systems, it has become customary for contentious judges to voluntarily withdraw from hearing the pertinent case, he claimed.
The home minister further stated that it is customary to remove contentious judges from a bench at the request of the party who was wronged.
According to Sana, the PML-N legal team would request that the two judges step down from the benches where Nawaz Sharif and other party officials’ cases are being heard.
