Former chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Thursday sent a defamation notice worth Rs 20 billion to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan for causing “humiliation and mental agony” to him by levelling serious charges of rigging the May 2013 elections against him.
“I claim from you in damages a token sum of Rs 15 billion and another Rs 5 billion as damages for mental agony, harassment and humiliation caused to me as well as my family,” said the former chief justice in the notice. However, the former top judge said he would withdraw his claim if the PTI chief tendered an unconditional apology or agreed to pay Rs 20 billion within a period of 14 days.
Referring to the PTI chief’s remarks about alleged poll rigging, Chaudhry said Imran has “again started repeating indecent words against the judiciary, DROs and ROs, etc and alleged their involvement in the so-called rigging.”
The former CJ said Imran’s speeches and press conferences were calculated with “the underlying mischief of harassing me and my family members and you have succeeded in damaging my reputation and image”.
“Allegations about my conduct and that of some of the ROs are clearly based on some ulterior motives and political gimmickry,” the notice further stated.
The ex-chief justice said, “perhaps, in making these baseless allegations, you wanted to exact revenge from the court for not getting relief in respect of four select electoral constituencies where you alleged rigging had taken place.”
“What you do not seem to realise is that independent courts do not act on anyone’s whims and fancies,” he added.
“Perhaps you had hoped that your political might would allow you to extract ‘forced justice’ from the Supreme Court,” claimed the former chief justice.
“Dirty tactics like slandering cannot intimidate judges who possess moral courage,” he further stated.
IMRANKHAN – FIRANGIGULAM IMMORAL KAAFIR CORRUPT 24/7 ABUSIVE -NAAPAK – ALL HARAAMS -MUST BE TAUGHT SHARP LESSONS IN CIVIL BEHAVIOURS– BUT THEN IMRANKHAN IS CIA ISI GULAM E AZAM .. KHUDA PLEASE NEVER MAKE IMRANKHAN NIGHTCLUBS DARBAAN WAZIR E AZAM OF PAKISTAN ..PLEASE KHUDA
This amounts to character assassination. After all this you still say "please Khuda".
THINK OF PAKISTAN AAM AWAAM — U R OFF FOCUS IMRANKHAN TOUT .. IMRANKHAN IS KAAFIR GADAAR ABUSER CORRUPT CROOK DISGRACE ..
U think outspoken is working for Israel. He must be! It’s obvious. He’s on here day n night defaming paks only hope for future stability.
Outspoken. Get a history book and learn about the last 100 years of Islamic, Pakistani and British empire so u can understand what’s goings in today. U baboon!
For the recited this Chief Justice is a gambit
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