A petition has been filed in the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) seeking initiation of action against Justice Muhammad Farrukh Irfan Khan of the Lahore High Court (LHC) under Article 209 of the constitution for his alleged involvement in money laundering, misuse of office and accumulating illegal assets.
Former bureaucrat Nazar Muhammad Chohan has filed this petition through his counsel Barrister Syed Muhammad Javed Iqbal Jafri making Justice Farrukh Irfan Khan, Pakistan Bar Council and the Federation of Pakistan respondents.
The petitioner has submitted that Justice Farrukh siphoned off money to offshore accounts through money laundering and opened secret accounts. Name of Justice Farrukh Khan has also appeared in Panama leaks disclosures for stashing money in off shore companies illegally, he said, adding that despite being a serving judge of LHC, he is running his law firm in Lahore and Dubai.
“He neither got suspended his license nor he tendered resignation from membership of bar as per code of ethics of superior judiciary and laws of Pakistan Bar Council and he kept on obtaining directives from Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in important and sensitive natured cases,” the petitioner alleged.
“The standard of living of Justice Farrukh is beyond his known source of income. He was appointed as judge of LHC despite the fact that he had not done any practice in high court and he lacked the experience of trial and appeal cases,” the petitioner continued, adding that the SJC should summon Justice Farrukh and disqualify him for violating laws of the constitutional office.
The petitioner has attached 25 documents with his petition. .
