ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) on Friday challenged the Supreme Court Registrar’s office objections on its petition against lifetime disqualification of lawmakers under Article 62 (1) f of the Constitution.
The plea filed by SCBA President Ahsan Bhoon had argued that the disqualification under Article 62 (1) (f) should be applied in cases of an election dispute. “The apex court cannot proceed as a trial court under the powers of Article 184(3),” it added.
Earlier this month, the Supreme Court refused to entertain the petition filed by the SCBA.
The SC Registrar’s office had returned the SCBA constitution petition by raising several objections, stated that the matter has already been settled by five judges of a larger bench.
It is pertinent to mention here that article 62(1)(f), which sets the precondition for a member of parliament to be “sadiq and ameen” (honest and righteous), is the same provision under which former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was disqualified by a five-judge SC bench on July 28, 2017, in the Panama Papers case.
Similarly, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader Jahangir Tareen was disqualified by a separate bench of the apex court under the same provision.
In 2018.
A five-judge Supreme Court bench unanimously held that disqualification handed down under Article 62-1(f) of the Constitution is for life.
