{"id":18071,"date":"2025-12-15T15:11:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T10:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=18071"},"modified":"2025-12-15T15:11:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T10:11:43","slug":"ihc-hears-degree-case-as-justice-jahangiri-objects-to-chief-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=18071","title":{"rendered":"IHC hears degree case as Justice Jahangiri objects to chief justice"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Islamabad High Court on Monday conducted a hearing in a case related to the authenticity of the law degree of Justice Tariq Mahmood Jahangiri.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri appeared as a defendant before the two-member bench headed by Chief Justice Sarfraz Dogar, with Justice Azam also part of the bench.<\/p>\n

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Justice Jahangiri raised a formal objection to Chief Justice Sarfraz Dogar in the bench, calling it a conflict of interest.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

During the proceedings, the chief justice asked lawyers who had accompanied Justice Tariq Jahangiri to remain in their seats, saying he wished to hear only from his judicial colleague.<\/p>\n

Justice Jahangiri told the court that he had received the notice only on Thursday and that it was issued without a copy of the petition or supporting documents.<\/p>\n

He said the case related to his degree was over a year old and requested time to review the petition and appoint legal counsel.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou are a judge, and I am also a judge. I have filed a petition against you,\u201d Justice Jahangiri said, adding that it constituted a conflict of interest.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou cannot sit in a bench hearing a case against me. I do not trust this bench and request that the matter be referred to another bench.\u201d<\/p>\n

He further argued that\u00a0quo warranto<\/em>\u00a0appeals are traditionally heard by a single bench, not a division bench, and objected to being restrained from performing judicial duties, calling it unprecedented in judicial history.<\/p>\n

Justice Jahangiri said he had been given only three days\u2019 notice, adding that even in murder cases, charges are framed after at least seven days.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf such a precedent is set, it will have disastrous consequences,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n

Justice Jahangiri swore that his degree was genuine and said the university had never declared it fake or claimed it had not issued the degree.<\/p>\n

During the hearing, members of the Islamabad Bar Council and Islamabad Bar Association were also present in court, while a large number of lawyers gathered near the rostrum, prompting the Chief Justice to ask lawyers to take their seats.<\/p>\n

After hearing the arguments, the court directed the registrar of the University of Karachi to appear with complete records related to the degree.<\/p>\n

The court also ordered that a copy of the petition and all relevant documents be provided to Justice Jahangiri.<\/p>\n

The hearing in the degree dispute case was adjourned until Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Islamabad High Court on Monday conducted a hearing in a case related to the authenticity of the law degree of Justice Tariq Mahmood Jahangiri. Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri appeared as a defendant before the two-member bench headed by Chief Justice Sarfraz Dogar, with Justice Azam also part of the bench. Justice Jahangiri raised a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18072,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,36],"tags":[9904,4953,9902,282,9903,9901,9905],"class_list":["post-18071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-pakistan","tag-bench-objection","tag-court-proceedings","tag-degree-case","tag-islamabad-high-court","tag-judicial-ethics","tag-justice-tariq-mahmood-jahangiri","tag-legal-dispute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18073,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18071\/revisions\/18073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}