Islamabad chief commissioner gets back powers to exercise 3MPO

• IHC quickly restores ICT government’s powers to order detention.
  
• ICT chief commissioner filed attraction in opposition to IHC’s single bench order.
• Discover issued to events on attraction in opposition to earlier verdict on 3MPO.

ISLAMABAD: Revisiting the order issued by its single bench final month, the Islamabad Excessive Court docket (IHC) has “quickly” restored the chief commissioner Islamabad’s authority to direct detention underneath Part 3 of the Upkeep of Public Order (3MPO).

Issued by a two-member bench comprising IHC Chief Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri on Thursday, the decision got here after the court docket suspended its single bench’s choice to cease Islamabad’s chief commissioner from exercising 3MPO regulation.

The excessive court docket issued a discover to the events on the attraction of the Islamabad Capital Territory’s (ICT) administrator and others in opposition to the choice.

Following the choice, it has quickly restored the authority of the federal capital’s government to take motion on their intra-court attraction for an injunction.

The bench, in its written order, said: “The Chief Commissioner could proceed to carry out his capabilities pursuant to Presidential Order in query.”

Final month, Justice Babar Sattar’s single bench declared the issuance of detention orders underneath the 3MPO “null and void” pertaining to the case of arresting Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders Shehryar Afridi and Shandana Gulzar.

The chief commissioner and residential secretary, after the choice, filed an intra-court attraction in opposition to the judgement, on which the court docket issued notices to the events.

Justice Sattar’s court docket noticed that Islamabad’s government doesn’t have the authority to challenge detention orders underneath the 3MPO because the stated powers must be vested solely within the federal cupboard.