The Supreme Judicial Council (SJC), which is seized with references against two superior court judges, has sent two show-cause notices to Justice Qazi Faez Isa of the Supreme Court.
The first notice has been issued in connection with the presidential reference instituted by the law minister in which Justice Isa has been accused of possessing properties in the United Kingdom in the name of his wife and children. The second notice has been issued on another reference filed by a lawyer from Lahore over the judge’s act of writing two letters to President Dr Arif Alvi.
A source privy to the development told Dawn that the decision to issue the show-cause notices was made during the SJC’s last meeting on July 12 when Attorney General Anwar Mansoor appeared before the council to convince it about reasons why the government had moved the references against two superior court judges.
