{"id":6108,"date":"2025-09-19T18:22:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T13:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/?p=6108"},"modified":"2025-09-19T20:59:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T15:59:03","slug":"5-islamabad-high-court-judges-move-supreme-court-against-chief-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/2025\/09\/19\/5-islamabad-high-court-judges-move-supreme-court-against-chief-justice","title":{"rendered":"5 Islamabad high court judges move Supreme Court against chief justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"282\"><strong data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"14\">Islamabad:<\/strong> Five judges of the Islamabad High Court (HC) have filed a petition in the <strong data-start=\"84\" data-end=\"113\">Supreme Court (SC)<\/strong>, challenging the <strong data-start=\"131\" data-end=\"159\">administrative decisions<\/strong> of <strong data-start=\"163\" data-end=\"198\">Chief Justice Sarfraz Dogar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"284\" data-end=\"541\">The petition argues that the <strong data-start=\"313\" data-end=\"382\">Chief Justice cannot suspend or curtail a judge\u2019s judicial powers<\/strong> through administrative authority, and that <strong data-start=\"426\" data-end=\"461\">Article 209 of the Constitution<\/strong> is the only legal path for restraining a judge from performing judicial duties.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"543\" data-end=\"567\">The petitioners include:<\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"569\" data-end=\"741\">\n<li data-start=\"569\" data-end=\"605\">\n<p data-start=\"571\" data-end=\"605\"><strong data-start=\"571\" data-end=\"603\">Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"606\" data-end=\"634\">\n<p data-start=\"608\" data-end=\"634\"><strong data-start=\"608\" data-end=\"632\">Justice Babar Sattar<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"635\" data-end=\"674\">\n<p data-start=\"637\" data-end=\"674\"><strong data-start=\"637\" data-end=\"672\">Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"675\" data-end=\"708\">\n<p data-start=\"677\" data-end=\"708\"><strong data-start=\"677\" data-end=\"706\">Justice \u00a0Ejaz Ishaq Khan<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"709\" data-end=\"741\">\n<p data-start=\"711\" data-end=\"741\"><strong data-start=\"711\" data-end=\"741\">Justice Saman Rafat Imtiaz<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-start=\"743\" data-end=\"926\">They have requested the <strong data-start=\"767\" data-end=\"810\">Supreme Court\u2019s constitutional guidance<\/strong> and intervention to <strong data-start=\"831\" data-end=\"864\">protect judicial independence<\/strong> and ensure that due process is followed within the judiciary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Five judges of the Islamabad High Court (HC) have filed a petition in the Supreme Court (SC), challenging the administrative decisions of Chief Justice Sarfraz Dogar The petition argues that the Chief Justice cannot suspend or curtail a judge\u2019s judicial powers through administrative authority, and that Article 209 of the Constitution is the only &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3338,3340,3337,160,3341,3339,2294],"class_list":["post-6108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-article-209","tag-chief-justice-sardar-ejaz-dogar","tag-five-judges","tag-headline","tag-judges-judicial-powers","tag-supreme-court-of-pakistan","tag-youdigital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6108"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6115,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6108\/revisions\/6115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}