May 9 incidents – BOL News Staging

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Tuesday approved Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) founder’s petition to form a judicial commission to investigate the May 9 incidents.

The Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court heard the plea of founder PTTI for a judicial inquiry into the May 9 incident, in which the Additional Attorney General and Imran Khan’s lawyer appeared in the court.

During the hearing, the Additional Attorney General said that the petition is not of public importance and there are objections to it. On this the court overruled the objections of the Registrar’s Office and directed it to be scheduled for hearing.

Founder PTI’s lawyer Hamid Khan said that it has been one and a half years, do you know what happened on May 9.After May 9, there were hundreds of cases and a political party was walled up.

On this, Jamal Khan Mandokhail asked why you did not approach the High Court. Hamid Khan said that it is not a matter of any province but of the whole country.

The court told the founder PTI’s lawyer that they are only finishing the objections of the registrar office, the case on merits has not been heard yet, the court will have to satisfy the questions raised when the case is rescheduled.

During the hearing, Justice Musarrat Hilali remarked that even if the commission is formed, it will only fix the liability. She remarked that the judicial commission report will not affect the criminal cases.

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ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) granted military courts conditional permission to announce reserved verdicts against civilians facing trial in May 9 incidents.

The bench, led by Justice Aminuddin Khan and including Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar, Justice Syed Hasan Azhar Rizvi, Justice Shahid Waheed, Justice Mussarat Hilali, and Justice Irfan Saadat Khan, heard intra-court appeals against the decision of its five-member bench nullifying an earlier apex court decision declaring military trials of civilians unconstitutional.

The Attorney General told the court that a total of 105 accused are in the custody of the army, among them there are 20 people who can be released before Eid. For the release of these 20 persons, there are 3 stages that will have to be followed.

The Attorney General further said that the first step for the release of the accused would be the pronouncement of a reserved decision, the second step would be its confirmation and the third step would be to grant concessions to those with lesser sentences by the Army Chief.

Meanwhile, the Attorney General requested the military courts to allow the reserved judgments, to which the court said that even if the permission is granted, it will be subject to the final decision of the appeals.

The court asked the attorney general to give the names of those who are to be released, the attorney general said that he cannot give the names until the decisions are received from the military courts, those whose sentence is one year will be given concession.

The court said that the Attorney General had assured that statutory concessions would be granted to those with lesser sentences, allowing the verdict to be delivered subject to the final decision on appeals.

Later, the Supreme Court gave conditional permission to military courts to pronounce reserved judgments and said that judgments should be pronounced only in those cases in which the nominees can be released before Eid.

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SC fixes PTI founder’s plea to form judicial commission for hearing

SC grants conditional permission to military courts verdicts

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