A complaint was filed against Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial in the Supreme Judicial Council on Friday, seeking his removal because of ‘misconduct’ in the recent court saga of elections in Punjab.

“[Justice Bandial] thereby is guilty of overturning the constitutional norms, ethics and thus the oath he has sworn has thinned in air and he is an oath less person at this point of time.”

The complaint was filed by Raja Sibtain Khan, a lawyer based in Islamabad.

“It is talk of the town that the incumbent Chief Justice has devised groupings within the vagaries of the August Supreme Court of Pakistan,” the reference reads.

It also says that ‘it is commonly known by the people’ that CJP Bandial kept ‘four judges in his basket’ and has been ‘luring them for his own personal motives and benefits’.

The reference says that the CJP constituted benches according to these groupings to get a ‘majority order’ in the election delay suo-motu notice.

Marriyum Aurangzeb demands CJP’s resignation

Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb demanded Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial’s resignation on Friday, alleging that his conduct has made him controversial.

Addressing a press conference in Islamabad a few hours after Justice Athar Minallah’s dissenting note in the election delay case was made public.

Aurangzeb said that Justice Minallah’s note had stamped the fact that the decision was indeed 4:3 in favour of rejecting the suo motu notice and not 3:2.

The minister said that a decision which was being rejected from inside the court could not possibly be expected by the public.

She added that the chief justice had proven that he was acting as an ‘abettor’ to Imran Khan and had violated constitutional norms by imposing a minority verdict.

Aurangzeb also said that the parliament had already rejected the verdict.

She also said that the court had refused to form a full-court bench to hear the case despite the fact that multiple parties had demanded it. She added that the court had even refused to hear the lawyer representing the government parties.

She also said that PTI’s government which had come into power through dubious means such as the RTS malfunction was the reason that the country and the economy were in such a state. She added that the court decision of disqualifying Nawaz Sharif was the reason Pakistan was in its current state.

This story is being updated.