Islamabad, Dec 13 (Pak Destiny) As Iftikhar Chaudhry is no more
heading the axpex court, a petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking
an order to retrain any person standing within the premises of this Court and
its Registries, whether a litigant, a lawyer or from any other occupation
including media, “from amplifying the spoken words of any Judge or circulating
such words until the ruling on this petition.”
Petitioner Shahid Orakzai
requested the Supreme Court to enforce Article 19 by declaring that the spoken
word of a Judge during the Court proceeding shall not be instantly amplified or
broadcast instruct the federation to ensure that the spoken word of the Judge
during Court proceedings is not spread as alarm or warning or affect the
interest of any party to the proceedings.
Former CJ Iftikhar Chaudhry’s
“maulajat-style dialogues” used be broadcast by media creating an impression
that there had been a ‘fight’ in the court going on. –Pak Destiny