ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) issued a notification on Thursday to Additional District and Sessions Judge (ADSJ) Raja Khurram Ali Khan, withdrawing him from his current duties and reassigning him as an Officer on Special Duty (OSD) at the same court, effective immediately.
The notification was issued by the IHC registrar Raja Jawad Abbas Hassan on Thursday.
According to the notification, Khan’s services from the Civil District and Sessions Division-East Islamabad have been “withdrawn”. He has been placed in the IHC as OSD, maintaining “his own pay and scale i.e. BPS-20”, with immediate effect until further notice.
Tayyaba, the child maid allegedly tortured by the family of ADSJ Raja Khurram Ali Khan, was recovered from the judge’s house on Dec 29, police had said. An FIR was later registered against the judge and his wife. By Jan 2, the ADSJ had signed a compromise deed with Tayyaba’s parents through their lawyer, Raja Zahoor Hassan, and obtained a pre-arrest bail for his wife from fellow ADSJ Raja Asif Mehmood.
On Jan 3, another colleague of ADSJ Khan, ADSJ Atta Rabbani handed the custody of the child to her purported parents after a few minutes of proceedings on a habeas corpus application, whereby which a person can report an unlawful detention of imprisonment before a court. During Wednesday’s proceedings, Advocate General Islamabad, Mian Abdul Rauf said that “as per the police record, Raja Zahoor Hassan was a relative of ADSJ Raja Khurram Ali Khan.”
Raja Zahoor has represented himself as the child’s parents’ lawyer before ADSJ Mehmood and ADSJ Rabbani. Testifying before the SC, the child’s father, Mohammad Azam said that a Punjab MPA from the PML-N, Rai Usman Khan Kharal, visited his house and transported him, his wife Nusrat and Tayyaba’s paternal aunt and uncle to a house in Burma Town, Islamabad, where Raja Zahoor asked him to put his thumb impression on a stamp paper if he wanted his daughter back. “I put my thumb impression on papers but I don’t know what they were for as I am illiterate,” he said.
The American author John Maxwell has nicely advised leaders, “You must be big enough to…
As cheers of spectators reverberate, Ravi Jeep Rally becomes more than just a sporting event…
In a welcome development for travelers, flights operated by Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) in the…
“Agriculture, as a sector, hold the key to prosperity, food security, and the socioeconomic upliftment…
Months after a witty, holier-than-thou, jack-of-all-trades caretaker government retreated from the executive, repeated horrors from…
For all those hoping to see matured Pak-India relations enter a new chapter of normalisation,…
Leave a Comment