ISLAMABAD: Justice Athar Minallah of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday took exception to whispering by a litigant and ordered re-listing of the case for another day.

The case was against withholding of ‘health allowance’ of the Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD) employees.

The litigant was discussing something in low voice with his counsel, Shuaib Shaheen advocate.

This annoyed Justice Minallah who asked him to come to the rostrum.

The judge asked the litigant details of his case. After the litigant informed Justice Minallah, he decided not to take up the case and directed his staff to ‘re-list’ the matter for another day.

During routine practice, the turn of ‘re-list’ case comes at least after a fortnight.

Advocate Shaheen, counsel for CADD employees, told Justice Minallah that the litigant was sharing some information related to the petition and requested the court to hear the matter but the judge turned his request down.

Published in Dawn, August 30th, 2014