Supreme Court’s full court session has a look at off-air and on-air footage of Malik Riaz’s interview

Supreme Court’s full court session has a look at off-air and on-air footage of Malik Riaz’s interview

The full court session of the Supreme Court has formed a two-member committee to look into the matter of a controversial TV interview of real estate tycoon Malik Riaz.

The panel, comprising Justice Jawwad S Khawaja and Justice Khilji Arif Hussain, will investigate this ‘attempt to defame the apex court’ through an apparently planted TV show and take action under the contempt of court laws.

The chief justice had summoned all the judges of all registries to attend Friday’s 3pm meeting of the Full Court to discuss progress on rules of working committee, registration of advocates of record and fixation of cases. However, it was widely believed
that the meeting was being held to discuss Arsalan financial scandal carrying allegations that the chief justice’s son received bribes to influence court cases against Riaz pending before the courts.

During the meeting, the chief justice took notice of the TV show and summoned from the Pakistan Electronic Media Regularity Authority (Pemra) the on-air and off-air clips of the talk show. The show was aired on Wednesday in which Mubashir Lucman and Mehr
Bokhari interviewed real estate tycoon Malik Riaz in the light of the ongoing controversy pertaining to corruption allegations against Arsalan Iftikhar, son of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.

The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry started proceedings against his own son, Arsalan Ifthikhar, yesterday as he has been accused of receiving a bribe worth Rs 400 million by the real estate tycoon for the purpose
of having sway over some cases in the apex court of the country.

Before the hearing, Iftikhar told reporters he was innocent and that the Chief Justice had told him not to return home till the matter was settled by the apex court. Despite the fact that Malik Riaz is the key person in the case, he failed to make an appearance
before the Supreme Court yesterday. His aide told the bench that he was in Britain for medical treatment. The tycoon is facing a number of cases in the Supreme Court. These cases were filed by a number of persons who have accused Hussain of grabbing large
chunks of land and merging them into Bahria Town.

Zahid Hussain Bukhari has been making an appearance on behalf of Malik Riaz in front of the Supreme Court.

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