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Top court expunges controversial paras from Mubarak Sani case verdict


Police officers walk past the Supreme Court of Pakistan building, in Islamabad, Pakistan April 6, 2022. — Reuters
Police officers stroll previous the Supreme Court of Pakistan constructing, in Islamabad, Pakistan April 6, 2022. — Reuters

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Thursday expunged the controversial paragraphs from its verdict on the Mubarak Sani case whereas approving a evaluate plea filed by the federal authorities.

A 3-member bench headed by Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa and comprising Justice Irfan Saadat Khan and Justice Naeem Akhtar Afghan, heard the Centre’s plea alongside the Punjab authorities’s petition in search of a second evaluate of the highest courtroom verdict of February 6.

In a brief verdict, the highest courtroom stated the paras excluded from the decision can’t be cited as precedent in any judgment. 

The federal authorities had filed an extra petition on August 17, alongside Punjab authorities’s plea in search of evaluate of the highest courtroom’s July 24 verdict, as per Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s directives.

The Punjab authorities’s plea was a second evaluate plea in opposition to the highest courtroom’s July 24 verdict. The Supreme Court on February 6, which allowed the appeals of Mubarak Sani and put aside the order handed by the Lahore High Court on October 16, 2023.


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