ISLAMABAD – Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) Thursday hearing on a referencefor an indefinite time against Justice Farukh Irfan of Lahore High Court(LHC) pertaining to alleged misconduct.
A larger bench of SJC headed by Justice Mushir Alam heard the complaint inopen court against a judge of LHC.Justice Irfan’s counsel Hamid Khan prayed the court to avoid any actionagainst his client till the final decision on reference.
Justice Alam observed that the proceeding of SJC was not going to beconcluded as early and it was not appropriate to suspend it at this stage.
Hamid Khan pleaded that the statements of the witnesses have been recorded.There was a precedent to stop the proceeding of SJC in former chief justiceIftikhar Chaudhry case.
The bench remarked that it would issue an appropriate order after viewingthe request.
Justice Munib Akhter said, “If it would be an appropriate request to stopproceeding against accused person under Article 10(A) of the Constitution.”
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Justice Ijaz ul Ahsan remarked that the SJC had to examine this as wellthat action against the accused would be under criminal, civil law oradministrative nature. It would also be seen whether this action could bechallenged under Article 184/3 of the Constitution, he said.
The SJC, however, adjourned hearing of on the complaint due to shortage oftime.
It may be mentioned here that Justice Irfan is facing the reference onmisconduct after his name surfaced in the list of those having propertiesabroad in the 2016 Panama Papers leaks.
