Showing posts with label civil judge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label civil judge. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Judge pays heavy price for mimicking Justice Kayani

A civil judge posted in Khanewal district of Punjab has resigned after a video was posted on YouTube which showed him dancing with a girl.
The Lahore High Court took notice of the video and started an inquiry against Civil Judge Muhammad Bilal. The judge resigned instead of facing the inquiry. Had it been a simple video of dance which people do on family functions, things would have been easier for Bilal. It can be clearly heard in the video that another girl in the video is being repeatedly told to remove her clothes by a grey-haired bearded man. I guess, the judge was trying to be in the foot steps of legendary Justice Kayani.

Friday, July 8, 2011

Why my father don't want me to join judiciary

My father has remained a civil judge at the start of his legal career. His first and last posting was in Sahiwal district (7-7-1982 to 8-10-83). During the first couple of days of his job, he came across a case in which a patwari (revenue officer) was harassing a poor peasant.
My father decided the stay application in poor peasant’s favour. The judgment consisted of only four lines. Now I have realized that why I love brevity. The patwari appealed the judgment before the district judge who reversed the order passed by my father. The district judge, Saeed Sabbir, wrote a four-page judgment, explaining in detail that why the order of lower court was to be reversed.
The peasant appealed the Lahore High Court. The high court judge, Justice Munir, wrote one-and-a-half page of judgment setting aside the order of the district judge and agreeing with the decision of the lower court, which my father was presiding over.
Soon after my father had passed the order, the district judge started sending show-cause notices to my father. My father jokingly remembers them as love letters from his boss. The letter demanded justifications such as why my father was two minutes late on Thursday? Why he was four minute late on Saturday? My father was a new entrant in judiciary so he asked a senior colleague about the show cause notices he was getting.
The colleague told my father that the brother of that patwari was a professor who used to tutor the children of the district judge free of cost. Apparently, the district judge was very angry over the ‘insolent’ civil judge who passed an order against the teacher of his children.