LHC promotes 41 judges

Lahore High Court Administration Committee chaired by Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry, while discharging its business about the promotion or otherwise of the judicial officers of Punjab, promoted 41 judges on Friday. As many as 15 judges were promoted as district and sessions judges, 23 as senior civil judges and three as additional district and sessions judges. The committee also deferred the cases of other judicial officers.
The judicial officers promoted as district and sessions judges are Javed Mahmood Sandhu, Rai Nazir Ahmad, Shahid Rafiq, Imtiaz Ahmad,Rana Abdul Qayyum, Nisar Baig, Ch Abdul Rashid Abid, Sheikh Khalid Bashir, Shafqat Ali, Sohail Ikram, Khalid Naveed Dar, Ameer Mahammad Khan, Jawadud Hassan, Zafar Iqbal Naeem, and Irfan Ahmad Saeed.
The judicial officers promoted as senior civil judges are Jamil Ahmad, Umar Hayat, Abher Gul Khan, Aslam Bhatti, Abdul Rehman Arif, Sardar Iqbal Dogar, Ashraf, Azam Rana, Arshad Anjum, Jaleel Ahmad, Muhammad Ali, Shahzad Raza, Nadeem Tahir Syed, Atta Rabbani, Mehmood Haroon Khan, Irfan Haider, Munsif Khan, Rafaqat Ali Qamar, Ahmad Nawaz Khan, Muhammad Furrukh Hameed, Ms Kaneez Faiza Bhatti, Syed Nasir Ali Bokhari and Abid Ali.
Those promoted as additional district and sessions judge include Muhammad Kaleem Khan, Asim Mansoor, and Muhammad Yasin Saheen.The cases of additional district and sessions judges Shahid Mahmood, Shaukat Mahmood, Syed Muhammad Zafar Abbas Sabazwari, Muhammad Iftifaq Abbasi and Mubin have been ignored for promotion while case of Allah Baksh Khan has been deferred for one year.
Senior Civil Judge Hyder Ameen and civil judges Shahid Ali Khan and Hidayat Ullah Shah have been ignored for promotion, while the cases of civil Judges Muhammad Naveed Hashmi, Nusrat Ullah Khan Niazi, Mujahid Abbas Sohail, Khalid Mahmood Warriach, Muzammal Sipra, Muhammad Tariq, Javed Iqbal Bosal, Muhammad Daood Sahi, Muhammad Iqbal Haral, Muhammad Asif Rana and Adnan Mushtaq have been deferred.
The cases of additional district and sessions judges Javed Iqbal, Zafar Hussain Bhatti and Jamil Ahmad have been deferred for promotion. The committee granted compulsory retirement to District and Sessions Judge Shahid Rafiq Sheikh. The committee awarded move over in grade 19 to the Additional District and Sessions Judge Shahbaz Ali Peracha and reinstatement in the service of civil judges Saima Riasat and Nadia Siddique.