Justice Qazi Faez Isa of the Supreme Court, who is facing two references before the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) over alleged misconduct, has requested Chief Justice of Pakistan Asif Saeed Khosa to order provision of evidence so that he could write his reply to the show-cause notices issued to him. The SC judge has also asked for making public his earlier reply submitted to the council.
A source privy to the development said that in his letter to the CJP, Justice Isa had stated that since allegations against him were known, the reply he had submitted to the SJC should also be made public.
Justice Isa had made the same request to the SJC after its first sitting on June 14. After that hearing, copies of the presidential references against Justice Isa and Justice K.K. Agha of the Sindh High Court were shared with them. Both judges were then asked to volunteer, if they choose so, to clarify their position on the allegations levelled in the complaint against them for not declaring properties in the United Kingdom in the name of their wives and children. However, none of the judges had been issued any formal show-cause under the Supreme Judicial Council Procedure of Enquiry 2005.
