ISLAMABAD – The Islamabad Excessive Courtroom (IHC) has initiated contempt of court docket proceedings towards Capital Development Authority (CDA) Member Property Zaman Wattoo for failing to look earlier than the court docket citing sickness and directed him to submit a reply inside seven days.
A single bench of IHC comprising Chief Justice of IHC Justice Sardar Muhammad Sarfraz Caninear rejected Wattoo’s request for an unconditional apology throughout the listening to of the contempt case.
Wattoo appeared earlier than the court docket alongside his counsel, CDA lawyer Nazir Jawad.
The IHC Chief Justice noticed that the contempt proceedings could be handled first, whereas the principle petition could be heard later. He additionally directed the prosecutor to look absolutely ready on the subsequent listening to.
Referring to the earlier listening to, the chief justice stated the court docket had recorded that Wattoo had appeared earlier than one other court docket however had failed to look earlier than his court docket.
The lawyer argued that Wattoo had not claimed that he was sick. He defined that the CDA official had appeared earlier than the other court docket as a result of he anticipated to be free sooner.
Justice Dogar questioned whether the court docket’s earlier order was incorrect and expressed displeapositive over what he described as a failure to point out due respect to the court docket, regardless of Wattoo having completed 60 years of service.
Counsel for the petitioner, Hasnain Theem, instructed the court docket that Wattoo had accompanied the CDA chairman together with his protocol crew when he was summoned by the court docket. He alleged that Wattoo had cited sickness earlier than the IHC however had appeared elsewhere to atare likely to the chairman.
CDA counsel sought an unconditional apology on behalf of Wattoo. The court docket directed the CDA member to submit his reply within the contempt proceedings and adjourned the listening to for one week.
