LHC issues contempt of court notice to Chief Commissioner Islamabad
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The Lahore High Court (LHC) has taken action by issuing a contempt of court notice to Islamabad's chief commissioner today. This notice expresses the court's displeasure over the chief commissioner's failure to comply with the LHC's orders to present Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) President Chaudhry Pervez Elahi before the court.
During the hearing focused on the LHC's contempt proceedings, several officials, including City Police Officer (CPO) Rawalpindi Syed Khalid Hamdani, Superintendent District Jail Attock Arif Shahzad, District Police Officer (DPO) Attock Sardar Ghayas Gul Khan, and Punjab Government’s Additional Advocate General Ghulam Sarwar Nihang, were present in the court. The Advocate General of Islamabad was also in attendance at the LHC.
Justice Mirza Viqas Rauf of the LHC expressed his dissatisfaction with the failure to present the former Punjab chief minister, Chaudhry Pervez Elahi, as ordered by the court. He questioned how the court's orders could be disregarded.
Elahi's lawyer pleaded that the court's orders had not been implemented, to which the court responded by emphasizing that ignoring the court's orders was a distinct issue.
The LHC pointed out that, despite the court's order, Islamabad police had arrested the former Punjab chief minister and transferred him to Attock Jail. The court sought clarification from Islamabad's advocate general regarding his stance on the court order, which was clear but not followed.
The advocate general explained that Pervez Elahi was being held in Police Lines due to security concerns, making it challenging to bring him to the court. In response, the LHC inquired why there was no difficulty in taking him from the court and stressed that presenting Pervez Elahi before the court should not be a matter of anyone's ego.
Consequently, the LHC determined that the Islamabad chief commissioner had violated the court's order and proceeded to issue a contempt of court notice. The court instructed that a response to the notice should be submitted within 7 days.
