SC reinstates Additional Registrar Nazar Abbas

Supreme Court Registrar’s Office has issued an official order reinstating Additional Registrar Nazar Abbas, reported 24NewsHDTV channel. 

Additional Registrar Nazar Abbas was made OSD (official on special duty) for fixing a constitutional bench’s petition in regular bench. Earlier, the Supreme Court of Pakistan reserved verdict on a contempt of court show-cause to additional registrar for not fixing a case pertaining to the powers of constitutional and regular benches. 

The regular Bench consisting of Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah and Justice Aqeel Ahmed Abbasi heard the contempt proceeding initiated against the Additional Registrar. The SC bench headed by Senior Puisne Judge Justice Mansoor Ali Shah issued a contempt of court notice to the additional registrar for transferring a case pertaining to the jurisdiction of regular benches to the constitutional bench.

Later, Additional Registrar Judicial, Nazar Abbas challenged the contempt notice issued by SC against him. As per details, Nazar Abbas has also filed an application seeking a stay order on the contempt proceedings initiated against him. 

The SC, acknowledging Nazar Abbas’s intra-court appeal, constituted a six-member larger bench to hear the case. A six-member bench led by Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhail took up the plea on January 27.