ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) Thursday directed the Judicial Complex Islamabad administration to restrain from stopping the journalists, advocates and public from entering the complex while hearing the NAB references against Sharif family.
Justice Miangul Hassan Aurenzeb remarked, “Whenever an open court conducts a trial, no one can restrain public from hearing the cases, otherwise it would be against the norms of justice”.
Instead of creating hurdles or barriers for journalists and advocates, the management should facilitate them for authentic and proper coverage of the cases, he said.
The direction came in the case moved by Shaista Tabasum advocate, in response to the incident that occurred on October 2, when the administration did not allow journalists and advocates, except lawyers concerned of the litigants to enter the judicial complex, who came for hearing the interim references filed against the Sharif family.