Threats to Justice Faez Isa: Agha Iftikharuddin Mirza released after being taken into custody

ISLAMABAD (92 News) – The police on Friday took Agha Iftikharuddin Mirza into custody in a case regarding threats hurled to Justice Qazi Faez Isa and the judiciary in a video. Later, Agha Iftikharuddin Mirza was released after the FIA assured the court of submitting the written reply of the accused. A two member bench headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Justice Gulzar Ahmed heard case after he took notice of a video clip containing derogatory and scandalous language against Justice Faez Isa case. During the hearing, the chief justice asked the attorney general that what is happening. The attorney general told the court that Justice Isa’s wife had submitted a petition to the police which had forwarded the matter to the FIA. “The FIA is doing nothing. It has other matters of judges as well (under scrutiny),” said the chief justice, adding that the agency has not produced results in any matter so far. Justice Aijazul Ahsan said that a state institution had been threatened in the video and a judge’s name was taken in a derogatory manner. “Why did the state machinery take action with delay?” asked Justice Ahsan to which the attorney general said that the FIA has started taking action under the Electronic Crime Act. The court issued a notice to Mirza today and summoned him to the next hearing of the case. “Maulana sahib came to the court but police took him into custody,” said Mirza’s lawyer to which the CJP said that he should appear before the SC. Subsequently, the court ordered the FIA director general and attorney general to appear before the bench in the next hearing on July 2. It is pertinent to mention here that a man identified as Agha Iftikhar-ud-Din Mirza can be seen giving threats to the SC judge. The top court had taken suo moto notice of the threats, stating that the video contained derogatory, contemptuous and scandalous language against the institution of the judiciary and the honourable judges, read a statement from the SC.