Nawaz Sharif Demands CJ Bandial's Resignation

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2023-04-07T23:07:38+05:00 News Desk
PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif has asked CJP Umar Ata Bandial to immediately leave his office, in wake of his decision in the Punjab eletion case.

"The courts pull nations out of a crisis, not push them into it," Nawaz said in a Twitter post on Friday.

"It is incomprehensible as to what powers the Chief Justice exercised to impose a minority opinion on a majority verdict," he added.

He went on to add that the Chief Justice who dishonored his post and the Constitution and pushed the PTI's agenda forward, should resign forthwith before anymore damage is done.

https://twitter.com/NawazSharifMNS/status/1644368814941798404

It comes hours after a complaint was filed with the Supreme Judicial Council seeking the CJP's removal.

According to the complainant, a lawyer, the top court became controversial after a suo motu notice into Punjab elections.

The CJP, he maintained, is behind a grouping in the top court, and he constituted the bench with that in view so he could gain a majority decision.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court declared the ECP’s decision regarding the postponement of elections in Punjab till October as null and void.

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A three-member bench, led by CJP Bandial and including Justices Ijaz Ul Ahsan and Munib Akhtar, announced the decision.

In its ruling, the apex court deemed the decision to hold elections on October 8 “unconstitutional” and mandated that they take place on May 14 in Punjab.

Late last month, a three-member bench of SC led by the CJP turned down AGP Mansoor Awan’s request to form a full court to hear PTI’s plea against the elections delay.

According to the court, the law or the rules don’t support the composition of a full court and doing so would take the matter back to its start.
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