The Lahore High Court here Friday has given new posting to three District & Sessions judges (D&SJs) who were earlier repatriated from trial courts seized with corruption and drug cases against opposition leaders.
D&SJ Masood Arshad has been posted as presiding judge of Anti-Terrorism Court-II in Multan till date of his superannuation on February 5, 2022 or until further orders whichever is earlier. His previous posting was at special court for Control of Narcotics Substance (CNS) where he was stopped from working while hearing bail petition of former law minister Rana Sanaullah Khan in a drug case.
D&SJs Arshad and Elahi have now been posted at anti-terrorism courts of Bahawalpur and DG Khan respectively for a period of two-and-a-half year unless directed otherwise.
Meanwhile, D&SJ Shaukat Kamal has been transferred and posted from consumer court Sialkot to ATC-I Rawalpindi.
Judge Naeem Arshad had been hearing cases of Ramzan Sugar Mills against leader of opposition in National Assembly Shahbaz Sharif, his sons Hamza and Suleman while proceedings of Chaudhry Sugar Mills case against PML-N vice president Maryum Nawaz and her cousin Yousaf Abbas were also pending before his court.
Through another notification, additional district & sessions judges Abdul Jabbar Naqshbandi has been transferred and posted from Multan to Jampur, Syed Ali Abbas from Jampur to Kasur and Ijaz Ahmad Bosal from Kasur to Kamoke.
The LHC also issued transfers and postings of twelve civil judges-cum-magistrates in the province. Muhammad Azam from Jalalpur Pirwala to Tandlianwala, Mudassir Hayat from Jalalpur Pirwala to Jatoi, Muhammad Hanif from Tandlianwala to Jalapur Pirwala, Rao Ijaz Ahmad (awaiting posting) from Lahore to Pattoki, Shaukat Hayat (OSD) from Lahore to Kabirwala, Sohail Khalid from Jatoi to Shorkot, Muhammad Ahsan from Rahim Yar Khan to Jalalpur Pirwala, Tahir Mahmood from Attock to Sarai Alamgir, Mudassir Iqbal Shah from Sarai Alamgir to Lahore, Ms Poonam Adnan from Lahore to Attock, Imran Asghar from Lahore to Sargodha and Muhammad Yasir from Sargodha to Lahore.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2019
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