Karachi:
The University of Karachi has canceled the LLB degree of Islamabad High Court (IHC) Judge Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri, considering his Syndicate’s last year’s decision.
Meanwhile, a division bench by Sindh High Court (SHC) has also rejected all the petitions that challenge the cancellation of the judge’s degree due to non-warning.
On August 31, 2024, the University of Karachi’s Syndicate canceled the allegedly “invalid” degree of justice Jahangiri on recommendations from the university’s unreasonable means (UFM) Committee. SHC On September 5, 2024, the university’s decision suspended.
However, the University’s Justice Secretary issued a “statement” dated September 25 stating that Tariq Mahmood son of Qazi Muhammad Akram had been found guilty of using unreasonable means in the late 80s.
“[He] was dismissed for three years to take admission to any university/college and to appear in any university degree study during disqualification Circular No 88 of 1989 and was never a student at Islamia Law College Karachi.
“In accordance with the Syndicate Meeting, which was held on August 31, 2024 Video Solution No. 06, the LLB results and the degree of Tariq Mehmood supported seat # 22857; registration No AIL-7124/87 is hereby withdrawn and canceled.
Separately issued SHC Division Bench-Hearing Registrations against the Syndicate’s decision on August 31 a written order on Friday and rejected a set of petitions filed against the cancellation of Jahangiri’s legal degree in relation to non-dissemination.
On Thursday, a witness was warmed up in SHC when a division bench consisting of Justice Mohammad Karim Khan Agha and Justice Adnan-Ul-Karim Memon refused to entertain Jahangiri’s plea- — which appeared personally-to become a party in procedures on pleas who challenged the cancellation of his degree.
The bench insisted that it would first hear and decide the maintenance of the petitions.
In its written order, the bench noted that it gave an opportunity to belong to all the advice of the petitioners on the issue of maintenance of their petitions; However, the advice deliberately chose not to use the opportunity and instead went out of the courtroom while causing a rump.
“Such a behavior is very printed. The registrar of this court must immediately preserve all CCTV recordings and any audio recording of 25.09.2025 both within and outside the CB-I Legal Room.
“That’s why we have dismissed all the aforementioned petitions on non-commissioning for the reasons described above, along with all listed/pending applications,” the order said.
The order said it is for this court to decide how to regulate its own procedure and cannot be dictated by proponents, adding that the court had decided that the preliminary objections and the matter of maintenance must be decided through a single joint order.
“Of course, if the objections proved to be valid, the question of maintenance could no longer remain relevant. Unfortunately, the learned councils representing the parties, along with other members of the bar, insisted that their objections were first decided.
“This court informed them that all questions would be heard and decided together as mentioned above. On this, all the learned advice for the Petries left the courts, which clearly indicated their unwillingness to continue with these petitions.”
It said the advice went out despite being given the opportunity to be heard, which they deliberately refused to use. Therefore, their petitions and any listed application are rejected.
“In addition, they began to raise slogans against the judiciary and disturbed the court’s decorum. Such behavior is very effortless and is not expected from senior members in the legal profession.
“Prima facie, however, such behavior constitutes contempt in court. However, by giving such messages upon forgiveness and by showing maximum legal restraint decided to refrain from issuing such messages. It is expected that the lawyer concerned must maintain the court’s decor in the future,”
On September 16, a division bench of IHC, which consisted of Chief Justice Sardar Muhammad Sarfraz Dogar and Justice Muhammad Azam Khan, justice Jahangiri prevented his duties when it took a petition who accused the judge of having a dubious LLB degree.
The judge contested the decision in the Supreme Court if five-members constitutional bench (CB) led by Justice Aminuddin Khan will hear the case on September 29.
In a petition he filed with SHC, Justice Jahangiri claimed that the general context in which the illegal and Mala Fide -Annullering of his LLB degree had taken place was the unclear legal independence he has demonstrated.
“Two prominent examples stand out,” the petition noted. “First, the petitioner is one of the six signatories to the letter dated 25.03.2024, written by judges of the honorary IHC, where detailed examples were given by the interference and monitoring of agencies for the federal government (Responser # 5), including the installation of monitoring equipment in his house.
“This was such an unprecedented and courageous attack on the independence of the judiciary that the Honorable Supreme Court in Pakistan introduced the Suo Motu case # 1 of 2024 to investigate this invasion and undermining the independence of the court, adopted various orders, and the case is still under Judice.
“Second, the petitioner was one of the judge who was appointed as the Celebrity Territory Electoral, and his appointment was carefully and consistently opposite to the winning candidates from the reigning party, led to the transfer of cases from the right to vote,” he added.
