IHC directed senior lawyer and PML-N Senator Azam Nazir Tarar to assist it in dealing with ex-PM Sharif's pleas against the verdicts issued in the graft cases.
IHC dismisses pleas against auctioning Nawaz’s property
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May 20, 2021
ISLAMABAD: A division bench of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday dismissed the petitions seeking to stop the auction of a property owned by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, declaring them as non-maintainable.
The bench said the IHC could not hear the case under section 199 when the petitioners had other forums for relief, adding the litigants should have filed the application in the trial court for stopping the auction.
The bench comprising Justice Aamir Farooq and Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri announced the decision which was earlier reserved after hearing arguments from the petitioners’ counsel against the property auction in Toshakhana reference.
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May 20, 2021
Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday rejected three petitions submitted for hearing against the auctioning of properties of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif.
A two-member bench, headed by Justice Aamir Farooq, rejected the petitions filed by Mian Iqbal Barkat, Muhammad Ashraf and Aslam Aziz, terming those non-maintainable under Article 199 of the constitution.
The bench said that the IHC cannot hear the case under Article 199 when the petitioners have others forums available for relief. The litigants should have filed the application to the trial court to stop the auction, it added.
IHC rejects petitions to stop auction of Nawaz’s property
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May 20, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court Wednesday rejected the petitions filed by former premier Nawaz Sharif and others, seeking court directives for stopping the auction of their properties deeming them inadmissible.
Divisional bench of the Islamabad High Court comprising Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri and Justice Amir Farooq, in a short decision said the applicants have the alternate platform and they can go to the trial court to stop the auction of the properties of the former prime minister.
The court said due to availability of an alternate forum the high court cannot hear the petitions according to Article 109 of the Constitution. Earlier, Qazi Misbah, counsel for the former prime minister, argued before the court that the purpose of auctioning proclaimed offender’s property was to force him to surrender.