{"id":18275,"date":"2023-08-02T17:06:33","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T12:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=18275"},"modified":"2023-08-02T17:06:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T12:06:33","slug":"supreme-court-rejects-plea-seeking-full-court-in-civilians-military-trail-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/supreme-court-rejects-plea-seeking-full-court-in-civilians-military-trail-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court rejects plea seeking full court in civilians\u2019 military trail case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Wednesday rejected a plea seeking the constitution of a full court to hear a set of petitions challenging the trial of civilians in military courts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Full court is not available till September,&#8221; Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial said while announcing a reserved verdict on Karamat Ali&#8217;s fresh plea filed on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>A six-member bench, comprising CJP Bandial, Justice Ijazul Ahsan, Justice Munib Akhtar, Justice Yahya Afridi, Justice Sayyed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi, and Justice Ayesha Malik, was hearing the case.<\/p>\n<p>It may be noted that the trials of civilians arrested for involvement in the May 9 riots, have not been started yet, Attorney General for Pakistan (AGP) Mansoor Usman Awan informed the court at an earlier hearing.<\/p>\n<p>The CJP also expressed hope that the civilians would not be tried till the conclusion of the ongoing case.<\/p>\n<p>While announcing the verdict, the CJP said that court holidays are going on while there are other engagements of the judges as well, which are being affected by this case.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/impossible-to-form-full-court-at-this-time-cjp-bandial.html\">&#8216;Impossible to form full court at this time&#8217;: CJP Bandial<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>He said that a full court was formed by dissolving other benches on two occasions earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The CJP then turned down the plea, saying a full court was not available till September.<\/p>\n<p>Later, AGP Awan gave arguments on the matter of granting the right of appeal to people to be tried in military courts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The army men, who don&#8217;t have basic human rights, are tried in the military courts,&#8221; Justice Muneeb Akhtar said, while asking how would the civilians, who have human rights, be tried in military courts.<\/p>\n<p>The AGP informed the court that he has taken up the matter of granting the right of appeal with the Cabinet Committee on Law.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the adjutant general must be consulted on the legislation relating to granting the right of an appeal, and a number of issues must be considered in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>CJP Bandial then directed the AGP to continue his arguments at the next hearing and adjourned the proceedings till tomorrow (August 3).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Wednesday rejected a plea seeking the constitution of a full court to hear a set of petitions challenging the trial of civilians in military courts. &#8220;Full court is not available till September,&#8221; Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial said while announcing a reserved verdict on Karamat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":18241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[1649,2730,5353,732,5096],"class_list":["post-18275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-chief-justice-of-pakistan","tag-cjp","tag-justice-muneeb-akhtar","tag-supreme-court-of-pakistan","tag-umar-ata-bandial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}