After reports of multiple judges of the Lahore and Islamabad high courts receiving suspicious letters containing a powdered substance, it has emerged that five judges of the Supreme Court have also received threatening letters containing a suspicious powder.
Among those who received threatening letters are Chief Justice of Pakistan Qazi Faez Isa, Justice Athar Minallah, Justice Aminuddin Khan, Justice Jamal Mandokhel and Justice Shahid Waheed.
Moreover, it has been reported that Justice Waheed received the letter at the Lahore registry.
The Islamabad police has decided to file a separate case to investigate these incidents. Sources indicate that the case will be registered at the CTD police station.
Later in the day, CTD officials reached the Supreme Court and left after confiscating the threatening letters. Sources said the Supreme Court judges received the letters on April 1, adding that a case will be registered on the application of the clerk of the R&I branch of the court.
The court staff was not harmed by the powder contained in the threatening letters, the sources said, adding that the CTD team also met with the Supreme Court registrar.
Earlier in the day, DIG (Operations) Shahzad Bukhari told the Islamabad High Court that four Supreme Court judges had also received suspicious letters.
He said this during the hearing of appeals challenging the cipher case verdict against PTI’s Imran Khan and Shah Mahmood Qureshi. IHC Chief Justice Aamer Farooq had told the advocate general to summon the capital police chief and SSP (operations).
DIG (Operations) Shahzad Bukhari and Counter-Terrorism Department Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Humayun Hamza appeared in court. “The recovered chemical has been sent for inspection, and a chemical report will be received in three to four days,” he said.
The court asked where these letters had been posted from. The DIG said the seal on the envelope was illegible, and also informed the court that today, four judges of the Lahore High Court also received letters with the same name.
