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Chief justice will not hear Perv's bail case
Hell hath no fury like a Chaudhry jugged...
The Chief Justice of Pakistan, Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, has recused himself from the bench hearing an appeal against post-arrest bail granted to General (retd) Pervez Musharraf by the Islamabad High Court (IHC) in a case relating to detention of judges after the proclamation of emergency on November 3, 2007.

“I shall not hear the plea for cancelling the bail granted by the high court,” the chief justice said and directed the Supreme Court’s office to send the case filed by advocate Aslam Ghumman to another bench. The court office had placed the appeal before a bench headed by the chief justice who had also remained in detention until his reinstatement in March 2009.

On June 11, the IHC had granted bail to the former president on a surety bond of Rs500,000. A division bench of the high court held there was no record to determine Musharraf’s role in placing over 60 judges in detention.

Ghumman filed the petition, challenging the IHC’s order of granting bail to Musharraf after removing terrorism from the charge-sheet and requesting the apex court to set aside the decision and order his arrest.
Posted by: Steve White 2013-07-10
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=371904