ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court\u2019s constitutional bench has granted conditional permission to military courts to announce verdicts in cases involving 85 suspects \u2014 allegedly involved in the May 9, 2023, riots.<\/p>\n
In its order on the hearing of the appeals against civilians’ military trial, the constitutional bench said judgements of military courts would be conditional to the top court verdict on the cases pending before it.<\/p>\n
“The suspects eligible for clemency should be granted it and released, while those who cannot be released should be transferred to prisons after being sentenced,” the constitutional bench said.<\/p>\n
The bench, led by Justice Aminuddin Khan, heard intra-court appeals challenging military court decisions. The bench also included Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhail, Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar, Justice Syed Hasan Azhar Rizvi, Justice Naeem Akhtar Afghan, Justice Musarrat Hilali and Justice Shahid Bilal Hassan.<\/p>\n
The top court, in its unanimous verdict by a five-member bench, on October 23 last year declared civilians’ trials in military courts null and void after it admitted the petitions challenging the trial of civilians involved in the May 9 riots.<\/p>\n
However, on December 13, 2023, a six-member bench of the apex court \u2014 with Justice Hilali differing with the majority \u2014 suspended its October 23 order on petitions challenging the earlier verdict.<\/p>\n
The PTI called the Supreme Court\u2019s 5-1 decision to suspend its ruling of nullifying military trials of civilians a “judicial coup”.<\/p>\n
The more than 100 civilians facing military trials were those who had allegedly ransacked military installations across the nation on May 9, following PTI founder Imran Khan\u2019s arrest in a graft case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court\u2019s constitutional bench has granted conditional permission to military courts to announce verdicts in cases involving 85 suspects \u2014 allegedly involved in the May 9, 2023, riots. In its order on the hearing of the appeals against civilians’ military trial, the constitutional bench said judgements of military courts would be conditional to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-news"],"yoast_head":"\n