Nothing wrong with recording JIT proceedings says SC
On Tuesday, 20th June 2017 the Supreme Court dismissed Hussain Nawaz’s request to prohibit the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) from recording videos of the proceedings.
Hussain who is the eldest son of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, earlier in the month had filed a request in the apex court after a CCTV image of his appearance before the JIT was ‘leaked‘.
Furthermore Hussain had sought that a commission be formed to investigate the leaking of the photo. In the request he had claimed that the photo leak was against ethical and legal codes he had also added that the recording videos of the JIT’s proceedings was akin to “pressurising” witnesses appearing before the body.
In the request Hussain had added that the recording of proceedings does not allow witnesses to “speak without being treated like a criminal.”
In reply to the request the apex court, rejecting Hussain’s request had said that the video recordings are only used for the preparation of the transcript.
On Tuesday, 20th June 2017, Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan, head of the special implementation bench of the Supreme Court, said “Till the law is amended, the video recordings will not be shown in the court room.”
The judge assured that the “Video recordings cannot be presented as evidence before the court.”
Conversely the judge had also noted that action has been taken against one suspect who has been identified in connection with the leaking of Hussain’s photo.
At this, the Attorney General (AG) Ashtar Ausuf told the court that there was no objection to the report of the investigation into the leaked photo being made public.
However, the court on the other hand said that the report would not be disclosed to the public.
Furthermore, the court had also ordered the Intelligence Bureau (IB) to file a reply to the SC in relation to the allegations against it.
IB has come under fire recently after it was alleged that the bureaus had hacked a Facebook account in the use of JIT member Bilal Rasool and his family members in order to retrieve its contents, which had been apparently attached by Hussain Nawaz in a complaint regarding the JIT’s partiality to the SC.
In the previous week, the director general of the IB had conceded that the agency collected ‘details‘ of the members of the JIT, however the bureau had denied hacking any individual’s social media accounts or harassing their family.
A day earlier, the SC had sought the AG’s assistance in determining what legal backing the bureau has to become ‘private sleuths’, admonishing the civilian spies for “interfering” in the JIT’s investigation.
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