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ISLAMABAD: A meeting of the Judicial Commission on Saturday delayed the reappointments of Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday and Justice Rehmat Hussain Jafri as ad hoc judges of the Supreme Court, DawnNews reported.
The commission met in Islamabad to consider reappointments of the two judges as well as nine other judges of the Sindh High Court (SHC).
Three judges of the Sindh High Court were not given extension, whereas six SHC judges were awarded extension for a period of one year.
The judges who were denied extension were Justice Abdul Hadi Khoso, Justice Zahid Hamid and Justice Zakir.
Earlier, on February 14, a late-night announcement by the Supreme Court had said that Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, who presided over a full court meeting on that day, had proposed to request Justice Ramday and Justice Jafri to rejoin the bench as ad hoc judges, which was unanimously agreed.
Justice Ramday’s one-year extension expired on February 16. Moreover, Justice Jafri had reached superannuation on November 22 last year.
The court’s February 14 notification had stated that the two judges had accepted the proposal in “wider institutional interest”.
Also, on February 17, the Pakistan Bar Council rejected the resolution proposing the reappointment of Justice Ramday and called for elimination of ad hocism in the judiciary in all forms.
