{"id":4070,"date":"2025-04-17T00:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T00:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4070"},"modified":"2025-04-17T00:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T00:04:13","slug":"ihc-questions-cjs-case-transfer-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4070","title":{"rendered":"IHC questions CJ&#8217;s case transfer authority"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday questioned whether the chief justice has the authority to transfer a case from one bench to another without the consent of the concerned judge.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Sardar Ijaz Ishaq Khan made the remarks while hearing a contempt of court petition against Deputy Registrar Judicial Sultan Mehmood for allegedly altering the bench in a contempt case against the Adiala jail superintendent, who had denied Mashal Yousufzai a meeting with PTI founder Imran Khan.<\/p>\n<p>In response to a court notice, the deputy registrar appeared before the bench. During proceedings, Justice Ijaz asked if there was any legal precedent where a case was transferred without the concerned judge&#8217;s approval.<\/p>\n<p>The deputy registrar presented a past case as reference, but the judge pointed out that in that instance, the chief justice had been part of the original bench and had simply added two more judges. &#8220;The real question is whether the CJ can unilaterally reassign a case,&#8221; Justice Ijaz observed. Addressing the registrar, the judge acknowledged his constraints and said he did not wish to penalize him but urged him to speak the truth.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday questioned whether the chief justice has the authority to transfer a case from one bench to another without the consent of the concerned judge. Justice Sardar Ijaz Ishaq Khan made the remarks while hearing a contempt of court petition against Deputy Registrar Judicial Sultan Mehmood for allegedly altering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}