With all the controversy about the CJ right now, here is a story which shows that all other issues aside he is still working on ensuring justice gets served
The case so far:
- In May it was reported that a jirga in Kohistan sentenced 4 women and 2 men to death for dancing which was recorded in a mobile phone video, and a relative of the women said they had been murdered as a result
- The tribe denied it
- The Attorney-General sent a team to the area and said that they found that no such incident has taken place, and that the video was faulty (What on earth does that mean???)
- The woman’s relative continued to insist that they were murdered by having their throats slit open on May 30th
- The local commisioner file charges against the relative for lying!
- Chief Justice steps in saying that if the women were not murdered… then they should be presented before the Supreme Court to settle the issue. If the local comissioner cannot produced the women by the end of the day today, he has to quit!
Kohistan case: CJ says women must be produced in court | DAWN.COM
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday adjourned the hearing in the suo motu notice in the Kohistan death decree case to 6 pm, DawnNews reported.
The court had taken a suo motu notice on the issue on Monday after reports came up that clerics had allegedly issued orders for the killing of four women and two men after a mobile phone video emerged of the six singing and dancing at a wedding in a remote village in Kohistan.
A three-judge bench of the apex court comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Jawwad S. Khwaja and Justice Khilji Arif Hussain had taken up the notice in the case.
During the hearing, Attorney General Irfan Qadir informed the court that a fact-finding team was sent to Kohistan and it had determined that no such incident had taken place.
Responding to which, the chief justice inquired why the women in question had not been presented before the court. He reiterated that the women would have to be produced before the bench.
The attorney general reiterated that the video was faulty and no such incident had taken place, upon which the chief justice said that the women should be produced in court if they have not been murdered.
The chief justice also reprimanded the Hazara regional commissioner and said he must produce the women by Wednesday evening and failing to do so would require him to prepare to quit his job.
Chief Justice Iftikhar directed Chief Secretary Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ghulam Dastgir that the women should be handled with the utmost respect and should be produced before the court.