ISLAMABAD: Salman Akram Raja, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s (PTI) secretary common, wrote a letter to the Supreme Court docket’s registrar on Monday with a request to offer licensed copies of the June 27 quick order within the reserved seats case.
Salman Raja pleaded with the courtroom in his letter, written on behalf of the PTI, to offer him the copies of every of the three units of judgements, signed by all of the 12 judges of the Constitutional Bench (CB). He stated the web site of the Supreme Court docket had posted solely a brief order with respect to the judgements signed by 10 judges, and never 12, of the CB.
The courtroom order, signed by 12 judges of the CB who heard the assessment petitions in opposition to the July 12, 2024, Supreme Court docket judgement within the reserved seats case, has not been posted on the web site of the Supreme Court docket, the PTI chief noticed.
After an prolonged listening to on Friday, the Supreme Court docket’s Constitutional Bench overturned the July 12 majority judgement which had declared the PTI eligible for seats reserved for ladies and non-Muslims within the nationwide and provincial assemblies.
On the outset on June 27, Justice Salahuddin Panhwar had recused himself from the bench.
A majority of seven judges specifically Justice Amin-ud-Din Khan, Justice Musarrat Hilali, Justice Naeem Akhter Afghan, Justice Shahid Bilal Hassan, Justice Muhammad Hashim Khan Kakar, Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Ali Baqar Najafi had put aside the July 12 judgement on a set of assessment petitions, restoring the Peshawar Excessive Court docket’s determination of March 25 final yr which had disadvantaged the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) of reserved seats within the assemblies.
Printed in Daybreak, July 1st, 2025
