Sana accuses SC judges of \’bias\’ against PML-N | The Express Tribune

Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah on Wednesday alleged that Supreme Court judges Ijazul Ahsan and Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi were biased against the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N).

In a statement, the PML-N senior leader said that Justice Ahsan was the supervising judge in the case against party supremo Nawaz Sharif and \”justice was not expected from him\”.

He also questioned the impartiality of Justice Naqvi, claiming that irrefutable evidence had emerged in the audio leaks case that the judge was hearing.

Justice Naqvi is heading the bench in the case of misconduct in the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) against an apex court judge after audio leaks emerged purportedly featuring a conversation about the fixation of the case before a particular bench or judge with former Punjab chief minister Pervaiz Elahi.

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Sana furthered that both the judges have given adverse judgments in several cases related to Nawaz and Shehbaz Sharif, including the Panama case, party leadership case, Pak Patan allotment case and the Ramzan Sugar Mills case.

\”It has become a tradition in law and judiciary that controversial judges voluntarily recuse themselves from hearing the relevant case,\” he said.

The home minister added that there is also a tradition of removing controversial judges from a bench at the request of the aggrieved party.

Sana maintained that the PML-N legal team will ask the two judges to withdraw from the benches hearing the cases of Nawaz Sharif and other party leaders.