Supreme Court Justice Tariq Masood's letter, calling the Chief Justice's behaviour undemocratic

Islamabad: Supreme Court Judge Justice Tariq Masood wrote a letter to the members of the Judicial Commission in which he described the behaviour of the Chief Justice as undemocratic.

Justice Sardar Tariq Masood, while writing a letter to the Chief Justice and members of the Judicial Commission, said that when the Judicial Commission meeting started, the Chief Justice told about the information of his nominated judges, then Justice Retired Sarmad Jalal Usmani appointed four judges. In favour while opening against the appointment of one judge.

Justice Sardar Tariq Masood said in the letter that I also gave my opinion on my turn and gave my opinion on the appointment of Chief Justice Islamabad High Court Justice Athar Minullah to the Supreme Court, because Justice Athar Minullah is the senior most judge in the Chief Justices' High Courts. are

Justice Tariq Masood said that Justice Ejaz-ul-Ahsan and Justice Sajjad Ali Shah approved the names given by the Chief Justice, I also disapproved the nomination of three judges of the Sindh High Court and one of the Lahore High Court, then the Attorney General, The Law Minister and the representatives of the Bar Council agreed with me and rejected the appointment of four nominated judges.

The letter said that Justice Qazi Faiz Isa agreed with my opinion regarding the disapproval of the nominated judges of the Chief Justice, then when Justice Qazi Faiz Isa was giving reasons for disapproving the names of the Chief Justice, During the opinion of the Chief Justice, doing an unusual and undemocratic act, he got up and left the meeting without writing down the decision of the commission.

Justice Tariq Masood said that the matter had become clear that five members of the commission had rejected the nominations, so Chief Justice Umar Atta Bandyal suddenly left the meeting after hearing the opinion instead of pronouncing the decision.

Justice Tariq Masood said that the declaration issued by the Supreme Court spokesman is contrary to the facts, the Supreme Court spokesman is a member of the Judicial Commission and not the secretary.

Justice Sardar Tariq Masood further said that the members in the meeting rejected all five names in the ratio of five to four. Will be.