The Supreme Court on Wednesday deferred the decision on the petition filed by 16 judges for withdrawing their applications in the Judges Petition Review case.
The seven-member bench under the supervision of Justice Jawwad S Khwaja resumed the hearing of the case. The other members of the bench were Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain, Justice Saqib Nisar, Justice Ijaz Afzal Khan, Justice Athar Saeed and Justice Iqbal Hameedur Rehman.
Justice Khwaja said he would decide the case after considering the review petition.
One of the applicants, Justice (r) Tariq Mehmood told the court that the short verdict did not elucidate whether stoppage of pension would be implemented from the past or from the future.
He said the three judges gave the decision that paid pension would be taken back, adding that they were withdrawing their applications as it was not implemented from the past.
Justice Nisar said every applicant had the right to take back his application at any time.
