{"id":56069,"date":"2024-11-14T11:12:20","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T06:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=56069"},"modified":"2024-11-14T11:12:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T06:12:20","slug":"newly-formed-constitutional-bench-begins-hearing-18-pending-cases-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/newly-formed-constitutional-bench-begins-hearing-18-pending-cases-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly-formed constitutional bench begins hearing 18 pending cases today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The first-ever six-member <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/featured\/justice-aminuddin-to-head-as-7-member-constitutional-bench-formed\/\">constitutional bench<\/a> began hearing cases on Thursday (today), taking up an environment-related case that has been pending since 1993.<\/p>\n<p>According to the cause list issued on Wednesday, the newly-formed constitutional bench, led by Justice Amin-ud-Din Khan, would hear about 18 constitutional cases on November 14 and 16 cases on November 15, pending in the Supreme Court for years.<\/p>\n<p>The six-judge bench was formed given the unavailability of the seventh judge, Justice Ayesha A Malik. Earlier on November 5, the seven-member bench was formed by the Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) following the enactment of the 26th Constitutional Amendment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"story_ads\">\n<p>The constitutional bench will hear the first three cases related to environmental pollution and human rights as well as a review petition against the dismissal of a case challenging the appointment of Justice Qazi Faez Isa as Balochistan High Court chief justice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-area\" data-io-article-url=\"https:\/\/www.geo.tv\/latest\/574285-six-member-constitutional-bench-begins-hearing-pending-cases\">\n<p>The bench will also take up a plea seeking a rescheduling of the 2024 elections as it was prayed before the court that the elections should be held between February and March.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the constitutional bench will also resume the 2007 hearing of a public petition against pollution caused by industrial units in Islamabad\u2019s Sectors I-9 and I-10. The petitions mentioned that the residents of I-9 and I-10 have been facing asthma, respiratory infections, allergies, and heart ailments since the establishment of industrial units, especially steel furnaces and marble units, in the Federal Capital Industrial Estate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The first-ever six-member constitutional bench began hearing cases on Thursday (today), taking up an environment-related case that has been pending since 1993. According to the cause list issued on Wednesday, the newly-formed constitutional bench, led by Justice Amin-ud-Din Khan, would hear about 18 constitutional cases on November 14 and 16 cases on November 15, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":19623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13446,2],"tags":[1200,23125],"class_list":["post-56069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-pakistan","tag-supreme-court","tag-constitutional-bench"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56069","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56070,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56069\/revisions\/56070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}