PESHAWAR: Islamabad High Court(IHC) Bar Association Secretary General Manzoor Jaja rejected the news regarding shifting of High Court Building to its old building and replace this building with Federal Constitution court.
Islamabad High Court Bar Association Secretary General Manzoor Jaja explained in a news conference that last night, news went viral on social media that the High Court was being shifted, but in reality, no such decision was made. He said that the current building of the High Court was acquired with the efforts of Justice Shaukat Siddiqui and the facility centre adjacent to the High Court has also been completed.
On the very first day of the Federal Constitutional Court functioning in the new building of the Islamabad High Court, which will be completed in May 2023 on the Constitution Highway, a rumour started circulating that the High Court was being shifted back to the old building.
However, sources in the Islamabad High Court termed this news as completely baseless and the High Court Bar Association also called it just a rumour.
Manzoor Jaja further said that after the 27th Constitutional Amendment, the Federal Constitutional Court was established, and the oath-taking ceremony of the judges of the court has also been held. Initially, various options were considered as to where the judges of the Federal Constitutional Court should sit, and finally, on the recommendation of Chief Justice Sarfaraz Dogar, the judges were temporarily arranged in the Islamabad High Court building.
He clarified that the Islamabad High Court building is not being shifted from Shahrah-e-Dastur to anywhere else and the activities of the High Court will continue uninterrupted in the existing building. He said that the Federal Constitutional Court has started its activities and now constitutional cases are being heard regularly in the High Court building.
