ISLAMABAD: The Musharraf administration seems to have been caught on the wrong foot by producing before the Supreme Court some highly objectionable scandalous material about the suspended chief justice of Pakistan in an apparent bid to prove that the top judge of Pakistan had a loose moral character.
The material presented before a full bench of the Supreme Court that is hearing the constitutional petition of the chief judge against his March 9 suspension by President General Musharraf, contained at least a dozen photographs of the Chief Justice taken in his house and chamber wherein he has been shown with Sonia Naz, a rape victim who had approached the top judge seeking justice against some senior police officials who had abused her.
While the government circles insist the suspended CJ can be seen in some of those pictures in an objectionable position with Sonia Naz, the lawyers of the top judge say that he had been pictured while consoling the rape victim by patting her back.
The Court reprimanded government lawyers for filing the scandalous dossier of evidence against chief justice and fined the government Rs 100,000 besides suspended the advocate on record who filed the evidence.
The court banned all unauthorised personnel, including intelligence personnel, from entering the Supreme Court and high courts and ordered the Intelligence Bureau (IB) to sweep the courts and their judges’ homes of any bugging devices, and file an affidavit to this effect in the SC on July 9.
The Supreme Court barred the media from covering the case. The taped telephone conversations of two senior judges of the apex court show them using highly objectionable language against their chief justice.
