IHC sends Islamabad DC to jail in contempt case

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) Friday sen­tenced six-month im­prisonment to Deputy Commissioner (DC) Is­lamabad Irfan Nawaz Memon and two others in a contempt of court case.

A single bench of IHC Justice Babar Sattar an­nounced its reserved verdict in the contempt of court case against Deputy Commission­er (DC) Irfan Nawaz Memon, SSP Islamabad and SHO for abusing and disregarding the high court orders declaring detention orders passed under MPO illegal, for obstructing administra­tion of justice and deny­ing citizens access to jus­tice, and for setting at naught the remedies af­forded by the justice sys­tem. The court also im­posed Rs100,000 fine on each of them. Justice Sat­tar also directed that let a copy of this judgment be sent to the Prime Minister of Pakistan, to investigate whether Deputy Commis­sioners across Pakistan who continued to issue detention orders under MPO in breach of the law and the Constitution and judicial orders were act­ing in an organized man­ner on the basis of illegal orders, and if so, take ap­propriate remedial action to ensure that the author­ity of the state to be exer­cised through chosen rep­resentatives of people, continues to be exercised according to the Consti­tution and the law.

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