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LAHORE, March 3: Chief Justice Iftikhar Husain Chaudhry of the Lahore High Court said here on Friday that the LHC was functioning satisfactorily in the discharge of its duty of administering justice to the litigant public.
Talking to newsmen at a ceremony where he administered oath to three new additional judges, the CJ said that the high court had taken concrete measures which yielded positive results in clearing a huge backlog of cases.
The judiciary in the province was more watchful than before in adjudicating civil and criminal disputes and he had received no complaints from any quarter about the maladministration of courts from anywhere in the province.
The chief justice gave oath to Justice Syed Sajjad Haider, an assistant advocate-general at Rawalpindi, Justice Tariq Shameem, the federal government’s standing counsel, and Justice Syed Asghar Haider, hitherto the legal adviser to the Pakistan Cricket Board, at a simple ceremony where others judges, senior lawyers and all the newly-elected office-bearers of the Lahore High Court Bar Association were present. Replying to another question, the chief justice said more judges would be inducted to the LHC and for this a process was already on.
KITE FLYING: Advocate M. D. Tahir on Friday sent an application to the chief justice seeking withdrawal of five-day extension given by the Supreme Court in kite flying.
The contended that the apex court’s decision of allowing the manufacture, trade and flying of kite till March 15 ought to be revised because the concession had already resulted in the death of at least five innocent people by kite flying string.
Advocate Tahir has already filed a miscellaneous application with Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry with the request that kite flying should be permanently banned.
Meanwhile, the Lahore High Court has fixed March 6 as the date for preliminary hearing of a writ petition which seeks a permanent ban on kite-flying.
