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Pak CJ, family roughed up by security men
ISLAMABAD: Ousted Pakistan Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry and his family were on Tuesday roughed up by security men outside his residence ahead of his appearance before a judicial council that will go into charges of misuse of authority against him.
Sacked by President Pervez Musharraf last week, Chaudhry declined to take the official car and was preparing to walk to the Supreme Court, where the Supreme Judicial Council was meeting to hear the case against him.
But the security officials did not allow him and a scuffle followed in which Chaudhry, his wife and daughters were manhandled by the security personnel who put him in his car, television channels reported.
He was taken to the Balochistan House, the changed venue of the hearing, where a number of his supporters were waiting. They clashed with the security men and in the melee the windscreen of his car was damaged.
Former Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali met him at the venue and persuaded him to attend the hearing.