Only cases of four months pending now: CJ Khosa

ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice  on Monday said the Supreme Court had left with cases pending for only four months now, ARY News reported.

Justice Asif Saeed Khosa said they were hearing criminal cases of November 2012.

“We started hearing the cases pending since 1994,” he said while hearing an appeal of a convict against his life imprisonment in the Supreme Court, Islamabad.

Dismissing his appeal, the three-member bench of the apex court upheld life sentence of convict Rehmat in truck driver murder case. He was accused of killing a driver, Muhibbullah, in Rajanpur.

The chief justice said the judiciary had traversed the journey of 25 years. “Now we are about to achieve our target,” he said.

Read More: CJP Khosa urges early disposal of pending cases

On February 23, the Supreme Court chief justice had asked the lower courts to dispose of the pending cases in an expedition manner.

He had asked the lower courts to curb the trend of filling unnecessary petitions and lawyers’ stay pleas and added that those factors were affecting the pace of providing justice to the people.

Asif Saeed Khosa had said that in case of stay order, hearing dates for the cases should be closer. He had said that special benches had already working for criminal and civil cases.