The Supreme Court on Monday started hearing a number of petitions challenging the Contempt of Court Act 2012.
A five-member bench of the Supreme Court comprising Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, Justice Tassadduq Hussain, Justice Shakirullah Jan, Justice Khilji Aif and Justice Jawad S. Khawaja was hearing the petitions filed against the new contempt law.
Earlier, the Supreme Court had issued notices to the federation and attorney general in the last hearing against the law.
It is pertinent to mention that President Asif Ali Zardari signed the bill into law after it was passed both by the Senate and the National Assembly. The law exempts government office holders from court proceedings under contempt of court charges.
Parliament gave those rights to the SC in the constitution and the parliament can amend those rights as needed. SC has declared itself above the constitution. First generals now judges; and public are too naive to understand how their mandate and authority is being trampled. Just like the judge making the accusations of contempt being the one to hear the arguments without stepping down, they won’t rule against their own previous claims no matter how many times you put it in front of them. Accumulation of too much power in the hands of one institution, which can reject/override/interfere the workings of the others, can create total anarchy in the country. And since that one institution runs at the whims of one individual (the CJ), very soon Mr. Nawaz Sharif will realize what kind of mess he invited upon the country.
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