CJP on Sunday has ordered that Justice Asif Saeed Khosa will hear the appeal against Lahore High Court’s (LHC) acquittal of a man earlier convicted for brutally attacking law student Khadija Siddiqui with a knife.
A two-member bench headed by CJP, heard the Khadija stabbing case.
The CJP had summoned the case’s record on Tuesday, a day after Justice Sardar Ahmed Naeem of the LHC, through a short order, acquitted Shah Hussain of all charges after accepting his appeal against the five-year sentence handed to him by a sessions court.
During the hearing of the case today, the CJP questioned Hussain’s father, “How did you run a campaign against the apex court?”
“Had something similar happened to the daughter of a lawyer, would your attitude have been the same?” he further asked him.
Meanwhile, Khadija informed the court, “I have become a target of the character assassination.
