CJ case hearing resumes today

Published May 21, 2007

ISLAMABAD, May 20: The Supreme Court will resume hearing on Monday of the 23 identical petitions filed against the March 9 reference that rendered Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry non-functional.

The full court, headed by Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday and comprising 13 judges, will hear the cases on a day-to-day basis, from Monday to Thursday. The 23 petitions also contain one filed by the chief justice himself who has challenged the president’s charge-sheet against him, his summoning to the army house in Rawalpindi and of forcing him to stay there for hours and asking for his resignation.

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