LAHORE: Advocate Basic of Punjab (AGP) Khalid Ishaq on Friday informed the Lahore Excessive Court docket that the vacancies of the judges in varied particular courts of the province had been crammed.
He additionally introduced the notifications for the appointment of 12 district & periods judges (D&SJs) in six anti-terrorism courts, 4 anti-corruption courts, a client courtroom and others.
Chief Justice Malik Shahzad Ahmad Khan lauded the function of the AGP in filling the posts of the particular courts lying vacant for months.
“All are respectable for us. You could have proven good conduct,” the chief justice stated addressing the legislation officer.
AGP Ishaq acknowledged that some posts of the judges had been nonetheless vacant as they had been underneath the purview of the federal authorities.
A federal legislation officer stated the judges’ appointment could be accepted within the subsequent cupboard assembly.
The chief justice famous that beforehand the provincial authorities had been in search of time and now the federal authorities got here up with the identical request.
He gave 15 days to the federal authorities to fill the vacancies of the judges within the particular courts of Punjab.
Later, the LHC additionally notified the judges’ appointments accepted by the federal government.
As per a notification, the periods judges embody Mr Khalid Arshad appointed at ATC-I Lahore, Irfan Haider at ATC-II Lahore, Muhammad Abbas at ATC Sargodha, Muhammad Naeem Saleem at ATC Gujranwala, Raja Shahid Zamir at ATC Faisalabad, and Ziaullah Khan at ATC Sahiwal.
D&SJ Muhammad Ali has been posted at District Client Court docket of Lahore, Bakht Fakhar Bahzad as judicial member of the appellate tribunal of Punjab Income Authority, Muhammad Khalid Ishaq as particular choose of anti-corruption courtroom of Bahawalpur, Muhammad Zahid Ghaznavi as particular choose of anti-corruption courtroom of Faisalabad, Safdar Ali Bhatti as senior particular choose of anti-corruption courtroom of Punjab and Arshad Hussain as particular choose anti-corruption, Lahore.
The CJ had taken discover of the vacancies within the particular courts whereas listening to a Punjab authorities’s attraction in search of switch of trial proceedings in varied Could 9 circumstances in opposition to the PTI leaders from a Rawalpindi ATC.
Revealed in Daybreak, Could twenty fifth, 2024