ISLAMABAD: Although efforts are being made to declare the judge who sentenced Imran Khan in the Al-Qadir Trust case as ‘incompetent’ and ‘installed’, Accountability Court judge Nasir Javed Rana was actually transferred to the capital when In PTI’s rule, Dawn have learned.
PTI founder Imran Khan, in his first reported comments on the court’s verdict, said, “The government is very afraid of me… I was convicted by an unscrupulous judge, who the Supreme Court in 2004 found judicially unconstitutional.” Removed from service.”£190 million corruption case.
In fact, Mr. Khan and his party are at pains to defame the accountability court judge who convicted the PTI leader and his wife Bushra Bibi on January 17.
Nasir Javed Rana was restored to judicial service by the former Chief Justice of Lahore High Court.
The decision was postponed three times. First, the judge postponed the verdict, which was scheduled to be announced on December 23, citing the winter holidays, to a new date of January 6. The decision was again postponed that day as the judges were on a training course.
The next date for announcing the verdict was January 13, but as Mr Khan and Bushra Bibi did not appear in court, the judge fixed the matter for January 17, when the verdict will actually be pronounced.
Following the announcement, opposition leader Umar Ayub and party spokesman Sheikh Waqas Akram were among those who questioned the judge’s qualifications, with the latter claiming that the judge had previously been declared “unfit for judicial service”. And their judicial powers were also withdrawn.
Even advocate Faisal Hussain, one of Mr Khan’s legal advisers, criticized him for being “a judge who was not qualified to be a judge by the Supreme Court”.
He also warned that he would “expose the judge’s history”, but never shared any details.
The back story
It is a matter of record that in October 2004 the Supreme Court… Judicial powers withdrawn Nasir Javed Rana – then a magistrate in the Punjab Judicial Service – granted the 10-day remand of senior advocate Habib Wahab Al Khairi in violation of the law.
The then Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Nazim Hussain Siddiqui, observed that the Lahore High Court was directed to take further action against the official, who “has a strong propensity to do any kind of mischief and is a disgrace to the judicial service.” It’s totally unfit.”
The observation came in a 14-page judgment on the Spontaneous Notice on illegal detention of Mr Khairy, who was arrested under Sections 420 (fraudulent and dishonest supply and disposal of property) and 468 (forgery for purpose). was done fraud) and 471 (using genuine document as forged) of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC).
The order said that it was not possible to take a lenient view of the official’s guilt, as the evidence showed that Khairy was never brought before him.
At that time, the Chief Justice had observed that the High Court was required by law to complete proceedings against the Magistrate within two months.
The matter was referred to the then Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court, Chaudhry Iftikhar Hussain, and was heard by a three-member tribunal of the Lahore High Court, which acquitted him. Justice Hussain then reinstated him on 23 June 2007.
After his reinstatement, his services were finally transferred from the LHC to the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on 15 April 2019, and the then Chief Justice of the IHC, Athar Minullah, was appointed as a judge for a three-year term. But was “pleased”. Basis of deputation
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Insiders claim that Mr. Rana was an acquaintance of Fawad Chaudhry, a relative of former Lahore High Court Chief Justice Chaudhry Iftikhar Hussain, who was also a federal minister in the PTI cabinet.
Documents viewed by Dawn points out that Mr. Rana was transferred back to the LHC on March 3, 2021 from Additional District and Sessions Judge to District and Sessions Judge “as a result of promotion”. According to a notification dated 30 June 2021 – issued on the direction of Justice Minullah – Rana was reappointed to the Islamabad Judicial Service for three years.
A notification dated 2 August 2024, issued by the current IHC Chief Justice Aamir Farooq, retained the services of Nasir Javed Rana in the Islamabad judiciary.
Dawn Several attempts were made to contact Fawad Chaudhry but he remained unavailable for any comment. His brother Advocate Faisal Hussain said Dawn That Rana was cleared by the disciplinary committee comprising two judges of the Lahore High Court.
He confirmed that his uncle, Chaudhry Iftikhar Hussain, was then the Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court, but maintained that most judges knew him and his brother because of their family’s legal background.
Advocate Faisal Hussain also denied any relationship between his brother and the judge, claiming that Nasir Javed Rana had recently rejected the post-arrest bail application filed before him by Fawad Chaudhry. is
Published in Dawn, January 23, 2025.
