*LAHORE: *Sharif family may land into serious troubles as Lahore High Court(LHC) on Monday formed a full bench to hear petitions demanding ban ontransmission of contemptuous speeches of former prime minister Nawaz Sharifand daughter Maryam Nawaz.
Justice Mazahir Ali Akbar Naqvi will head the three-judge bench – whichwould also include Justice Atir Mahmood and Justice Shahid Bilal Hasan –tasked to hear several high-profile petitions during the next week.
Justice Mazahir will lead the hearing of the contempt of court petitionfiled against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, daughter Maryam Nawaz andvarious Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leaders.
On the other hand, petitions requesting ban of contemptuous speeches of therespondents would be heard by Justice Shahid Karim.
Earlier, civil society activist Amna Malik had filed petitions via hercounsel Azhar Siddique saying that all the respondents were continuouslyattacking the judges of Supreme Court.
The counsel said Nawaz Sharif as well as other leaders of the PML-N weretrying to discredit the superior judiciary.
He said that the applicant had continuously pointed out and highlighted thecontemptuous remarks by disqualified former prime minister and others whichalso went on air through some media channels but PEMRA never took actionagainst those propagating and misreporting the judicial proceedings.