Former Islamabad High Court judge Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui has filed anapplication in the Supreme Court seeking early hearing of his case.
The deposed judge requested the apex court to fix hearing of his case inthe first week of January 2023.
Siddiqui stated that the last hearing of his petition challenging thedecision of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) was held in June 2022.
The former IHC judge had submitted the appeal against an opinion of theSupreme Judicial Commission (SJC), as well as an Oct 11, 2018, notificationunder which he was removed as a superior court judge for his speech at theDistrict Bar Association, Rawalpindi, in July 2018.
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In his speech, Siddiqui alleged that certain officers of an agency wereinterfering in the judiciary’s affairs and were trying to “manipulate theformation of benches of the high court”.
In its suggestions, the SJC had ruled that Justice Siddiqui had not onlyviolated certain provisions of the code of conduct, but had also displayedconduct unbecoming of his stature and thus violated the traditionalrequirements of behaviour expected of a superior court judge.
