IHC to launch contempt proceedings on social media marketing campaign towards Justice Sattar

The event comes after Justice Sattar wrote a letter to IHC Chief Justice Aamer Farooq pertaining to the propaganda being run towards him on social media.

In accordance with the sources, the excessive courtroom has determined to transform the letter right into a contempt of courtroom case after assigning it a diary quantity. They added that the bench is prone to be constituted at the moment.

A social media marketing campaign was launched towards Justice Sattar claiming that the excessive courtroom choose holds American citizenship. Nonetheless, the IHC in a press launch on April 28 refuted the claims.

The excessive courtroom stated that Justice Sattar doesn’t maintain some other citizenship apart from Pakistan’s. It added {that a} “defamatory and baseless” marketing campaign was being run towards Justice Sattar on social media.

“Justice Babar Sattar’s spouse and kids are residents of Pakistan and the US. They had been residing within the US until 2021, however returned to Pakistan after Justice Babar Sattar was appointed as a choose of the IHC and now dwell in Islamabad.”

The IHC, in its press launch, stated that Justice Sattar’s confidential data is being posted and reposted on-line. It additional stated that the choose’s spouse and kids’s journey paperwork had been additionally uploaded on-line.

Particulars offered in tax returns concerning his properties had been additionally being posted on social media with false and malignant allegations, it stated.

Regardless of the clarification press launch issued by the excessive courtroom, the marketing campaign on social media has not stopped. Due to this fact, a call has been made to take motion towards the accountable events for contempt of courtroom.

Justice Sattar is among the six IHC judges who’ve complained of interference in judicial affairs by the nation’s spy companies.