ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Monday deferred  its proceedings for Tuesday on a plea of Husain Haqqani, Pakistan's former ambassador to the US, seeking its direction for the judicial commission investigating the memo scandal to record his statement via video conferencing.

The 10-member bench of the apex court, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, adjourned the hearing until Tuesday after Asma Jahangir, counsel for Haqqani, requested for placing on record certain documents.

During today's proceedings, Asma stated that the commission is of the view that her client should appear in person before it.

She said her client was neither an accused nor had an FIR been registered against him, but the commission had still not allowed video conferencing.

The chief justice told her that the court could not interfere with the commission's proceedings.

He moreover observed that the court's orders should be respected.

Asma said she wanted that not only orders of the apex court should be respected but also the laws of the land.

Naseer Bhutta, a counsel for one of the petitioners, also appeared during the hearing and objected to certain words in the application moved by Haqqani and requested that those particular words should be expunged.

The chief justice told him that he might submit an application to that effect.