SC accepts apologies of justices retired Dogar, Zahid

ISLAMABAD: A special bench of the Supreme Court on Thursday accepted unconditional apologies of the former Judges of the apex Court including justice retired Abdul Hameed Dogar and justice retired Sayed Zahid Hussain. Through their counsels both former judges expressed their regret and sorry for not considering a restraining order which placed a bar on taking oaths under annulled Constitutional Provisional Order of the November 3, 2007. The bench however, on the request of counsels adjourned hearing of pleas of other dysfunctional judges till March 21. The bench was headed by the Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. The bench is seized with issue of contempt of Court against a set of former judges of the superior judiciary.