ISLAMABAD
\nThe Supreme Court withdrew the contempt notice against Additional Registrar (Judicial) Nazar Abbas wherein referred the matter to Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Justice Yahya Afridi for constitution of full court on the powers of committees that decide to fix cases before benches.
\nAnnouncing a 20-page verdict in the matter, two members bench of the Justices Mansoor Ali Shah and Justice Aqeel Ahmed Abbasi said, \u201cWe find that he [Additional Registrar (Judicial)] did not deliberately avoid the fixation of the cases before the bench as directed in the court order [\u2026.] The show-cause notice issued against him for contempt proceeding is discharged,\u201d.
\nThe case is concerned with the legal conundrum arising out of erred fixing of cases \u2014 which included a challenge to the vires of Custom Act 1969 \u2014 by Additional Registrar (Judicial) Nazar Abbas, who wrongly fixed cases meant for the Supreme Court\u2019s constitutional bench instead of a regular one.
\nDuring the subsequent hearings, it was revealed that the case was not fixed for hearing and was, instead, later transferred to the constitutional bench, after which the two-member bench comprising Justice Shah and Justice Aqeel Ahmed Abbasi issued a show-cause notice to Abbas.
\nAnnouncing the verdict, the Bench accepted the additional registrar\u2019s argument \u2014 submitted before the court in his reply to the show-cause notice \u2014 that he had no authority to constitute the bench of judges and at most inform the competent authority, which he did in a timely manner.
\n\u201cUpon examining the case of the present alleged contemner, the Additional Registrar (Judicial) of this Court, we find that he did not deliberately avoid the fixation of the cases before the Bench as directed in the court order.
\n\u201cThere is no evidence to suggest that he had any personal interest in the matter or had connived with any of the parties to the case, nor did he act with the intention of causing damage to any of the parties to the case. There is no indication of mala fide intent in his actions,\u201d stated in the verdict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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