ISLAMABAD, May 29: The Federal Shariat Court will resume the hearing of Shariat petitions from Monday at its new premises on the Constitutional Avenue. Its offices were recently there.

A full bench of the court, comprising Chief Justice Chaudhry Ejaz Yousaf, Justice Allama Dr Fida Mohammad Khan and Justice Saeedur Farrukh, will hear shariat petitions challenging different provisions of the laws relating to imprisonment and jail manual.

According to the cause list of the FSC, on June 1, a shariat petition challenging clauses 4, 5, 6 and 7 of the Marriage Functions (Prohibition of Ostentatious Display and Wasteful Expenses) Ordinance 2000, is fixed for hearing.

The new FSC building has eight courtrooms, close to the individual chambers for the judges.

The four-storey building located between the Auditor General Pakistan's office and the Election Commission of Pakistan faces the Supreme Court of Pakistan.

The FSC bench will also hear nine other shariat petitions challenging sections 23 and 41 of the University of Engineering and Technology Lahore Act 1974, Sections 43 and 25 of the Bahauddin Zakria University Act 1975, Sections 42 and 24 of the University of Agriculture Faisalabad Act 1973, Sections 39 and 21 of the Gomal University Act, 1974, Sections 35 and 14 of the University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar Ordinance 1980, Sections 35 and 14 of the University of Agriculture Peshawar Ordinance 1981, Sections 42 and 24 of the Islamia University Bahawalpur Act 1975 and Sections 39 and 21 of the University of Peshawar Act 1979 (Act II of 1974) are fixed for hearing on June 3, 2004 before the same bench.

The Federal Shariat Court will examine these issues on the touchstone of injunctions of Islam. Notices in these petitions have already been issued to federal and provincial law officers besides the counsels for the petitions.