The Supreme Court’s constitutional bench has indefinitely adjourned the hearing of petitions filed by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) seeking formation of a judicial commission to probe the May 9 violence and investigation into alleged rigging in the February 8 general elections. The five-judge bench led by Justice Aminuddin Khan took up the case on Friday. Taking up the petitions filed by the PTI and Sher Afzal Marwat, constitutional bench\u2019s Justice Jamal Mandokhel rejected a request from the petitioner to allot numbers to the petitions, inquiring \u201cUnder what law a judicial commission should be formed?\u201d The SC judge further remarked \u201cYou have written in your petition that dozens of people were killed on May 9 but data of not a single victim was attached with the petition.\u201d Justice Hassan Azhar Rizvi remarked \u201cYou should have pinned a single certificate or an FIR with your plea.\u201d The constitutional bench while giving time to counsels to prepare arguments about merits of the case, adjourning the hearing indefinitely. When PTI\u2019s lawyers requested the bench to set aside the objections raised by the Supreme Court\u2019s Registrar Office and allot number to their application, Justice Mandokhel said the bench is ready to hear arguments about the merits of the case. Later the court rejected the plea to remove objections and allot number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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