ISLAMABAD, Jan 1: Legal activist Wahabul Khairi requested the Supreme Judicial Council on Thursday to prosecute a group of lawyers who, according to him, had threatened action against him for moving the SJC to initiate reference against Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar and two other judges for alleged misconduct.

After sending an application through registered post, he told reporters that he had requested the council to initiate contempt of court proceedings against former deputy attorney general Raja Abdul Rehman and Roy Mohammad Nawaz Kharral for allegedly threatening to file a sedition case against him for inviting military intervention and using intemperate language in the complaint before the SJC.

Mr Khairi alleged that Raja Rehman and his associates were trying to deprive him of his fundamental rights by restraining him from moving the SJC. He requested the council to take action against them.

The miscellaneous application said the Supreme Court in its short order had waived the condition of graduation for contesting elections in April last year but had never issued a detailed judgment.

The unanimous verdict by a seven-member bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar had said that the condition of graduation was declared to be void prospectively, for being discriminatory and against the fundamental rights inscribed in the Constitution.

Mr Khairi said that by failing to issue a detailed judgment, the court had actually violated its code of conduct. The Islamabad lawyers, who were apparently annoyed by Mr Khairi’s move, have vowed to provide legal support to a British psychiatrist who has lodged a complaint with the Pakistan Bar Council against Mr Khairi.

The psychiatrist has alleged that during legal proceedings with his ex-wife, he had received a bill of 2,000 pounds sterling from Mr Khairi in January 2008, but it had no details of transaction or any legal paperwork about payment.