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JUSTICE QAZI FAEZ ISA vs The PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN arts — 2021 PLD 1 SUPREME-COURT

Case information

Citation
2021 PLD 1 SUPREME-COURT
Court
Supreme Court of Pakistan
Year
2021
Reporter
PLD
Parties
JUSTICE QAZI FAEZ ISA vs The PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN arts
Subject matter
Constitutional

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Judgment text as reported

JUSTICE QAZI FAEZ ISA VS The PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN arts. 14(1), 184(3) & 209(5)(b)---Right to privacy---Scope---Surveillance---Presidential reference against a judge of the Supreme Court ('the petitioner') pending before the Supreme Judicial Council in relation to properties bought by his spouse and children in a foreign country that were not declared in the petitioner's tax returns---Constitutional petition filed by the petitioner before the Supreme Court calling into question the constitutionality and legality of the reference against him---Tax and property records of the petitioner-judge and his family were accessed/searched to frame the reference against the petitioner---Question as to whether such searches were a breach of the petitioner's and his family's right to privacy enshrined in art. 14(1) of the Constitution and thus amounted to covert surveillance---Reasons for quashing the Presidential reference recorded.

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