The Supreme Court of Pakistan (SCP) issued notices to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) director general and cleric Agha Iftikharuddin Mirza in controversial video clip case and fixed the hearing for July 2.
Cleric Agha Iftikharuddin has been ordered to appear before the court in person on next hearing and the same direction was given to FIA DG. The apex court expressed dissatisfaction over FIA action into the case which it noted maligned an important institution of the state.
Supreme Court Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed had taken suo moto notice of a video clip of a cleric identified as Agha Iftkharuddin Mirza in which he has used harsh language against the judges and demanded death penalty for those who were involved in financial embezzlement.
CJP Gulzar Ahmed had constituted a divisional bench to hear the case on Friday. The clerk’s video clip had become viral on the social media in which he demanded major punishment for those who were involved in corruption.
on Wednesday, the wife of Supreme Court judge Justice Qazi Faez Isa has filed an application for an FIR to be registered against a man who has threatened her husband.
In her petition filed to the SHO of the Secretariat police station, Sarina Isa has said the man, whom she tentatively identified as Agha Iftikharuddin Mirza, threatened Justice Isa’s life. She enclosed a USB with a video of the threat.
She quoted the man as saying “whoever is caught involved in embezzlement, even if he’s [Justice Qazi] Faez Isa…should be put before a firing squad”. He also called for the public hanging of “people like this” and said the whole city should be called to watch it. “Call them to Fawara Chowk to see that such and such man is being shot,” he said in the video.
Sarina Isa said she found his name via an internet search but did not know if it was his real name. She asked the police to look into this further.
“As you must know, many powerful people are not happy with my husband and I suspect that this death threat to my husband is in continuation of what we have been facing,” she wrote.