LAHORE, Nov 11: A division bench of the Lahore High Court comprising Justices Tassaduq Husain Jilani and Asif Saeed Khosa will hear a writ petition praying for the court intervention for staying the execution of Aimal Kasi by the US State of Virginia.
Petitioner Javed Iqbal Jaffery appeared in the court on Monday and submitted that the high court could help in staying the execution of Kasi in the manner a South African court had got the sentence of a man named Falkan Hamas suspended by writing to the US administration that it had no jurisdiction to punish a man taken into custody from South Africa. Falkan was not a South African national, but had been arrested from South Africa and deported to the US. The court agreed to hear him on Tuesday.
Jaffery has submitted in his petition that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif had handed over Aimal Kasi to FBI for $3.5 million. Officials of the US State of Virginia made Kasi make a confession by administering drugs. He has submitted that he had filed the writ petition for court intervention for repatriation of Kasi, but a former LHC chief justice did not allow its hearing.
DIRECTIVE: The high court has directed the home secretary to explain as to why a foreign national had not been released from jail even after serving his sentence.
The judge sought explanation from the home secretary while ordering the Faisalabad jail superintendent to produce Christina Lube of South Africa in his court on Wednesday and explain as to why she was being detained even after the expiry of her jail term.
Counsel Aftab Ahmad Bajwa submitted that Christina had been arrested from Faisalabad over two years ago with 1.5kg of heroin. She had been sentenced to two-year imprisonment which expired on Sept 10, but she had not been released till date.
POLICE GUARD: Justice Syed Jamshed Ali of the LHC called in the police guard when a Lahore deputy district education officer continued denying having received a court notice despite having acknowledged receipt of the same.
The judge directed the guard to detain the DDO as he was making false statements before the court. He was later reprimanded for his irresponsible behaviour by the court, and directed to redress the grievance of the petitioner, a teacher, in respect of determination of his seniority.
DDO Maqsood Ahmad had been summoned by the court in connection with the hearing of a petition filed by Muhammad Anwar, alleging that he was not redressing his grievance in respect of determining his seniority. He appeared in the court without the relevant record and insisted that he had not received any notice for appearing with the record.
Deputy attorney general Akhtar Husain Awan submitted that he had conveyed the court orders to the DDO on telephone personally and produced the papers on which he had acknowledged receipt of the court notice.