PCO judges review petitions hearing today in SC

October 9, 2009

Supreme Court will hear the review petitions of the PCO judges affected by the apex court’s verdict on imposition of the emergency in the country, today. A 14-member bench of the court headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry hearing appeals for review on the court’s judgment that declared the emergency and PCO unlawful. According to a press release issued by the apex court, the larger bench will clarify the contempt notices issued to the judges of the higher judiciary on October 05, 2009: Whether the contempt notices be issued only to the high court judges, which had violated the judgment of the seven-member bench and sworn in before declaration of emergency on November 03, 2007; or the notices also be issued to the Supreme Court judges that had violated the decision