{"id":485291,"date":"2025-06-20T02:28:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T21:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=485291"},"modified":"2025-06-20T02:28:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T21:28:33","slug":"judges-transfer-is-not-unconstituti0onal-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/judges-transfer-is-not-unconstituti0onal-sc\/","title":{"rendered":"Judges transfer is not unconstituti0onal: SC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>legal maters<br \/>\n ISLAMABAD<br \/>\nThe Supreme Court (SC) constitutional bench while announcing judgment of important constitutional case related to judges seniority and transfer has wrapped up petitions of Islamabad High Court (IHC) judges remarking judges transfer is not unconstitutional. The court rejected the petitions of judges by a 3-2 majority. The five-member bench, headed by Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar, concluded hearings on the case earlier. Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar, Justice Shahid Bilal, and Justice Safdar Ali Shah Panwar agreed in the majority judgment, declaring that judges\u2019 transfers are not unconstitutional.<br \/>\nJustice Naeem Akhtar Afghan and justice Shakil Ahmad disagreed with the decision besides accepting the plea of IHC judges.<br \/>\nThe court said that without touching the notification related to transfer partly we remand the matter of seniority of judges to the president.<br \/>\n3 judges declared the transfer of judges constitutional.<br \/>\nIt was said in court\u2019s decision that Safraz Dogar will continue to work as acting Chief Justice (CJ) IHC.<br \/>\nIt has been further said in majority decision the notification issued by the president on transfer of high court judges is as per law.<br \/>\nJustice Shakil Ahmad gave dissenting note.<br \/>\nIt has been said in dissenting note transfer of judges in IHC is declared null and void. President violated constitution in the matter related to transfer. The constitution does not allow to make transferred judge as judge of high court on permanent basis. Judges were transferred in haste and causes were also not given. Transfer of judges in IHC was based on malafide intent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>legal maters ISLAMABAD The Supreme Court (SC) constitutional bench while announcing judgment of important constitutional case related to judges seniority and transfer has wrapped up petitions of Islamabad High Court (IHC) judges remarking judges transfer is not unconstitutional. The court rejected the petitions of judges by a 3-2 majority. The five-member bench, headed by Justice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-485291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Judges transfer is not unconstituti0onal: SC<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/judges-transfer-is-not-unconstituti0onal-sc\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Judges transfer is not unconstituti0onal: SC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"legal maters ISLAMABAD The Supreme Court (SC) constitutional bench while announcing judgment of important constitutional case related to judges seniority and transfer has wrapped up petitions of Islamabad High Court (IHC) judges remarking judges transfer is not unconstitutional. 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