Sukkur: (Web Desk) A district and sessions court in Sukkur disposed of a petition seeking registration of a sedition case against Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PMLN) Senior Vice President (VP) Maryam Nawaz over alleged anti-judiciary remarks.
According to the source, additional Sessions Judge Mumtaz Solangi announced the verdict reserved after hearing arguments from the petition. The judge would explain the reason behind disposal of the petition in his detailed verdict.
Meanwhile on Wednesday, the court had directed Maryam Nawaz to appear before him on March 10 after petition was submitted over scandalous remarks against judges of the Supreme Court. The petition had filed by the PTI district Sukkur president Zaheer Babar, alleging that the PMLN stalwart had defamed the institutions.
Furthermore addressing a workers’ convention in Sargodha last month, the PML-N chief organizer had expressed reservations over some of the judges of the top court’s nine-member bench formed to take up the suo motu notice on delay in Punjab and KP polls.
As per details following her speech, former Attorney General of Pakistan Anwar Mansoor Khan had also written a letter to Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial, seeking action against Maryam Nawaz for “scandalizing courts and personalized criticism of judges”.
