Tayyib Baloch
Islamabad (June 5, 2017): The Supreme Court will hear the suo motu case over Nihal Hashmi’s threatening speech today.
The three-member special implementation bench of the apex court will hear the case today. Attorney General for Pakistan, who will act as prosecutor in the contempt of court case against the PML-N leader, has submitted evidence against Hashmi as prosecutor.
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The evidences include video of Nihal Hashmi’s speech and its text. The letter sent to Sindh government by AGP seeking registration of FIR against Hashmi also submitted in the SC.
Earlier, an FIR was registered against Nihal Hashmi under Criminal Procedure Code at a police station in Karachi. The FIR was registered on the complaint of SHO Bahaderabad police station.
As the speech was made in Karachi by Nihal Hashmi, so the FIR was also registered in Karachi.
It is to be mentioned here that the SC on last Thursday had decided initiate to open a contempt of court case against PML-N Senator Nehal Hashmi.
Issuing Hashmi a show-cause notice for maligning the judiciary and summoning him again on June 5, the court had appointed AG Ashtar Ausaf as prosecutor in the case and ordered him to compile relevant evidence in connection with Hashmi’s recent outburst against judiciary.
The chief justice had taken suo motu notice of a video of Hashmi railing against “those investigating” the prime minister’s family and threatening them with “consequences”.
Justice Saqib Nisar had summoned the senator to appear before the special bench overseeing the implementation of the Panama Papers verdict.
In the video, the senator had warned that those conducting the investigation will be “taken to task” for grilling the premier’s family.
His remarks were apparently made in reference to a Supreme Court-sanctioned investigation into the Sharif family’s business dealings abroad.
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