Supreme Court: The demand for a full court is nothing but hanging the case. Chief Justice
A dissenting opinion of 8 judges in a 17-member bench cannot be called a majority opinion. Remarks of the Deputy Speaker of the Punjab Assembly in the ruling case. International Press Agency.
The hearing on the decision of the Deputy Speaker of the Punjab Assembly has started in the Supreme Court. The official announcement of the boycott of the court proceedings by the ruling coalition was made this morning. After which the debate continued since morning.
PPP lawyer Farooq H Naik, Deputy Speaker Punjab Assembly lawyer Irfan Qadir said that my client has directed that the court proceedings will be boycotted as we had requested to constitute a full bench, which has been rejected.
That the dissenting opinion of 8 judges in the 17-member bench was not a majority opinion and all the judges had written separate dissenting opinions. The 21st Amendment case was also write by the Parliamentary Party.
The Chief Justice said that the boy cotters should show kindness and listen to the court proceedings. He said that majority decision is accept in any bench. If 9 judges of the 17-member bench give a dissenting verdict, it will be the opinion of the majority.
I consider my work as worship. He said that this is not a matter of full court. Full court is being demande only to hang the case. The Chief Justice said that the bench which decided the 63A case had 17 members. And no lawyer gave any opinion in it. Parliamentary party issues directives.
