Justice Aminuddin Khan of the Supreme Court on Thursday recused himself from a five-member bench hearing the PTI\u2019s petition against the Election Commission of Pakistan\u2019s decision to postpone polls to the Punjab Assembly till Oct 8.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter yesterday\u2019s judgement, I recuse myself from hearing the case,\u201d Justice Khan said.<\/p>\n
He referred to a judgement, authored by himself and Justice Isa, issued a day earlier which noted that the chief justice of Pakistan (CJP) did not have the power to make special benches or decide its members, and said that all hearings based on suo motu notices and cases of constitutional significance \u2014 under Article 184(3) \u2014 should be postponed until they are legislated upon.<\/p>\n
Justice Khan\u2019s recusal came as an unexpected development before the court proceedings began today.<\/p>\n
The original bench \u2014 which had conducted three hearings on the PTI petition \u2014 was constituted by CJP Umar Ata Bandial. It was headed by the CJP himself and included Justice Ijazul Ahsan, Justice Munib Akhtar, Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhail and Justice Khan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Justice Aminuddin Khan of the Supreme Court on Thursday recused himself from a five-member bench hearing the PTI\u2019s petition against the Election Commission of Pakistan\u2019s decision to postpone polls to the Punjab Assembly till Oct 8. \u201cAfter yesterday\u2019s judgement, I recuse myself from hearing the case,\u201d Justice Khan said. He referred to a judgement, authored […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-322769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n