12/12/2011 01:49:00 AM
ISLAMABAD: During a hearing of the Bhutto reference case on Monday, the Supreme Court issued a notice to Ahmed Raza Kasuri, FTNews reported.
Moreover, Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry said the court could not declare anyone innocent or guilty in the case but could give its opinion under Article 186.
An 11-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar was hearing the case.
Chief Justice Iftikhar told the president’s counsel Babar Awan to understand the implications of the relief he was seeking and said the court could only go so far as to say that the trial was not fair.
He said the court was also take suggestions from judicial assistants over the presidential reference. The decision would set an example in the country’s judicial and national history, Chief Justice Iftikhar said.
Awan alleged that the arrest of Mahmood Kasuri became the starting point of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s killing.
He further said that Bhutto’s prosecutor Farooq Behzad had also accepted that Bhutto’s death was a ‘judicial murder’.
At which point, Chief Justice Iftikhar directed the judicial assistants to guide the court in issuing a notice to Kasuri.
Subsequently, the case’s hearing was adjourned to January 2.
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