ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Mian Saqib Nisar once again rejected on Wednesday former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s plea to club the three corruption cases against him into one.
Nawaz, disqualified by the Supreme Court on July 28 last year in the Panama Papers case, had filed a petition in the apex court seeking to merge the three National Accountability Bureau (NAB) references against him.
That petition had been rejected by the Supreme Court registrar, after which Nawaz filed an appeal before the chief justice.
Hearing the appeal in his chamber today, Chief Justice Nisar rejected the plea.
Nawaz had first petitioned the apex court with the request on October 13. However, the registrar had rejected the petition, after which an appeal was filed with the chief justice.
Chief Justice Nisar, in an in-camera hearing on November 16, had dismissed the appeal.
On Dec 2, Nawaz petitioned the Supreme Court to again consider the clubbing of the three references.
The petition appealed to the apex court to consider the objections raised by the registrar and create a new bench to hear the petition.
It had stated that if a verdict is challenged, then the court has to restart proceedings on the matter and pleaded the court to consider void its ruling on clubbing the references.
