Lahore High Court Chief Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed, addressing the judges at the Punjab Judicial Academy here on Saturday, said the whole nation was grieved at the crash of airline in Rawalpindi and if the government wishes, LHC judges could conduct judicial enquiry into the tragic incident.
“However, if on the public pressure government opts for a judicial enquiry into the tragic incident, its findings should be implemented in letter and spirit otherwise there was no need of forming such commissions,” chief justice said.
The CJ was addressing the concluding ceremony of capacity building in-service training course for additional district sessions judges. The CJ said heavy investment was being done on the holding of these refresher courses in terms of time and money and stressed upon the course participants to make full use of this exercise and deliver in the present circumstances and available infrastructure.
The CJ said these capacity-building courses should be result oriented and there would be no compromise on the quality and quantity of judgments. The CJ said improvement of judicial system in Punjab was of paramount importance for improving whole judicial structure of Pakistan because 84 percent of the litigation belonged to Punjab.
The CJ said rule of law could only be realised if the principles and law of the land were followed. For building confidence among the people it was prerequisite that masses should be confident that every accused will get punishment per law, he said. He advised the participant judges not to go for number games by disposing more cases but rather to decide cases on the basis of sound evidence and according to constitutional law. He also disliked blatant use of discretionary powers since law did not permit that. Punjab Judicial Academy DG Justice (r) Tanvir Ahmed Khan and Sadiq Masud Sabir, a representative of the participants, also spoke on the occasion. Prayers were also offered for the martyrs of the plane crash. The CJ also distributed certificates amongst the course participants who included Shahzad Hussain, Muhammad Iqbal, Bashir Ahmad Chaudhary , Sadiq Masood Sabir, Zafar Iqbal Tarar, Mrs Misbah Khan, Shahid Sikandar, Rana Zahid Iqbal, Muhammad Ashiq, Ghulam Abbas, Afzal Khan, Arif Mehmood Khan, Amir Habib, Muhammad Zahid Ghaznavi, Muhammad Nadeem Shaukat, Naeem Ahmad, Rai Muhammad Nawaz, Muhammad Arif Hameed Shiekh, Muhammad Aslam Gondal, Muhammad Ijaz-ur-Rehman, Sohail Shafiq, Muhammad Ramzan, Muhammad Naeem Sheikh, Qamar-ul-Zaman, Muhammad Kaleem Khan, Asim Mansoor, Muhammad Yaseen Shaheen and Umar Hayat.
