Five-member SC bench to hear Panama case review petitions today
Five-member SC bench to hear Panama case review petitions today: A five-member bench of the Supreme Court will hear today the review petitions filed by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, his family and Finance Minister Ishaq Dar. The Supreme Court decided on Tuesday agreed to the Sharifs’ plea that a five-judge bench be formed to hear the review petitions against the July 28 Panama Papers case verdict instead of an already-formed three-member bench.
The new bench, headed by Justice Asif Saeed Khosa, will include Justice Gulzar Ahmed, Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan, Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed and Justice Ijazul Ahsan.
All five judges were part of the Panama Papers case bench that disqualified Nawaz and ordered filing of corruption cases against the others.
During hearing of the plea by the Sharifs for the formation of a larger bench on Tuesday, the counsel for Nawaz’s children, Salman Akram Raja, pleaded the three-member bench of the apex court, headed by Justice Ejaz and comprising Justice Azmat and Justice Ahsan, to form a five-member bench to hear their review petitions.
He also pleaded that their review petition against the judgment of the five-member bench be taken up first.
Justice Ejaz observed that the three-judge bench gave the majority verdict in the Panama Papers case and that the decision would not have been different had the three-judge bench given a verdict in the case.
However, the bench accepted Raja’s plea and sent to the chief justice a request seeking the formation of a five-judge bench, which was notified later in the day.
During Tuesday’s hearing, the counsel of Nawaz, Khawaja Harris, was also present and presented his arguments.
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