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ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Monday released its detailed judgment in the judges' appointment case on Monday, DawnNews reported.
The court in its judgment said that the Parliamentary Committee's decision was without a constitutional reason.
On March 4, the Supreme Court had overturned the eight-member bipartisan Parliamentary Committee’s decision of rejecting one-year extension to service of six additional judges of the Lahore and Sindh high courts recommended by the Judicial Commission.
A four-judge SC bench, comprising Justice Mahmood Akhtar Shahid Siddiqui, Justice Jawwad S. Khwaja, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice Tariq Parvez, had issued the order after hearing two identical petitions challenging the PC’s decision of declining the JC’s recommendation.
The court directed the federal government to issue a notification endorsing extension of service of the six judges in line with the recommendations made by the Judicial Commission at a meeting last month.
