FCC summons Supreme Court's case records on Imran's hospital transfer

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) on Tuesday summoned under article 175-E of the Constitution the complete record of cases related to the transfer of PTI founder Imran Khan to Shifa International Hospital pending before the Supreme Court. Article 175-E of, which was inserted in the Constitution through the 27th Constitutional Amendment, empowers the FCC to call for the record of any case and authorises it to decide matters involving major questions of constitutional law. In this instance, the case record was summoned by a three-member FCC bench, headed by Chief Justice Aminuddin Khan and including Justices Ali Baqar Najafi and Aamer Farooq, while hearing a plea filed by three Adiala jail inmates. The prisoner have sought their transfer to a private hospital for medical examination, similar to the relief granted to Imran via an August 18 SC order. As the bench called for the record of Imran’s cases on Tuesday, it also sought records of any similar matter from high courts. The bench observed that since the present matter, relating to the provision of medical facilities to the three Adiala inmates, originated from the Aug 18 SC order, the court was summoning the entire case record from the SC under Article 175-E (5) of the Constitution.

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