Reference against Justice Faez Isa Qazi dismissed by Supreme Judicial Council

ISLAMABAD: Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) on Monday dismissed a reference against Justice Faez Isa. 

In its request, the SJC expressed that the reference was dismissed over 'private letters' that were kept in touch with President Arif Alvi which were not found by the committee.

The request uncovered that the supposed letters by Justice Isa “had not been found by us to be serious or grave enough to constitute misconduct sufficient for his removal from the exalted office of a Judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan”.

Prior, Waheed Shahzad Butt, a legal advisor situated in Lahore had recorded the reference against Justice Isa over a supposed infringement of the Code of Conduct after he composed letters to the President of Pakistan and furthermore imparted it to the media.

The request additionally iterated that the source couldn't give adequate proof before the committee that would back his charge of Justice Isa imparting the letters to the media.

In May, the primary reference was recorded against Justice Isa by President Alvi for not uncovering three of his properties in UK just as his personal government forms, which he explained were under lawful ownership of his kids.

Justice Isa had written a letter to President Alvi looking for lucidity relating to reports of the administration documenting a reference against him over break of the Code of Conduct, duplicates of which were conveyed to the pinnacle court just as Prime Minister Imran Khan.

In the subsequent letter composed Justice Isa referenced his worries of a supposed media battle getting started against him.

The Supreme Judicial Council closed: "In this view of the matter, the alleged impropriety in the private letters written by the respondent-Judge to the President has not been found by us to be serious or grave enough to constitute misconduct sufficient for his removal from the exalted office of a Judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan".