KARACHI: A constitution petition filed by a local Customs Agent Sharjeel Jamal was adjourned until Monday, March 28 by a divisional bench of High Court of Sindh (SHC) comprising Chief Justice Sjjad Ali Shah and Justice Zulfiqar Ahmed Khan here on Friday.
Earlier Barrister Farogh A Naseem, counsel for the petitioner argued an application for an urgent hearing of the petition alleging harassment at the hands of the custom authorities. He maintained that the custom authorities are lodging FIRs one after another just to harass the petitioner and his family members including father and brother. Relying on a order by the same bench earlier, he said that respondent Customs Officials can lodge FIR after informing the bench but they are violating the judgment. The previous petition was disposed off with the direction to the respondents to not to register any FIR without intimation to the court.
Today the matter was taken up in the chambers on an urgent motion and the bench after a brief arguments fixed March 28 to hear the petition.
Ilyas Ahsan and Kashif Nazeer represented the custom officers including Deputy Collector Customs.
The same bench also allowed an application filed by the same petitioner seeking a correction in order passed by the bench on March 01. The petitioner sought substitution of the word trial court by “a bench of this High Court”. The bench observing that contention of the counsel for petitioner is correct ordered the staff concerned to make the necessary correction and substitution.