LAHORE: A Lahore High Court (LHC) division bench on Saturday referred an intra-court appeal, challenging single bench orders for Hamza Shehbaz oath taking, to the LHC chief Justice with a request to form a larger bench for its hearing.
The bench noted that many important law points had been raised through the appeal, therefore, it was necessary to form a larger bench for hearing.
The court also expunged paragraph 9 of single bench orders.
Justice Sajid Mehmood Sethi and Justice Tariq Saleem Sheikh heard the appeal filed by several MPAs of PTI.
On Friday, a single LHC bench had asked the Speaker National Assembly to administer oath to newly elected Punjab Chief Minister Hamza Shehbaz while allowing a third petition filed for the purpose.