Justice Kayani says state institutions might have leaked judges' confidential data
Pakistan
Why only judges become targets of "5th-generation warfare": IHC
(Web Desk) – In a major development, Islamabad High Court's Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani said on Tuesday that either the "state institutions might have leaked confidential data or their system was hacked."
These remarks were made as a three-member bench commenced the court's proceedngs on the social media campaign against senior judges.
Justice Kayani headed the three-member bench including Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri and Justice Sardar Ejaz Ishaq Khan to commence the contempt of court proceedings on the smear social media campaigns against Justice Babar Sattar.
After Justice Sattar and Justice Kayani wrote to IHC Chief Justice Aamer Farooq seeking contempt proceedings against those involved in leaking personal information and running a harmful campaign on social media, the high court had constituted two distinct benches on the matter on May 8.
While addressing the state counsel, Justice Kayani mentioned that a contempt of court action would be filed in this particular instance.
He continued by saying that a few hashtags and X (previously Twitter) accounts that were utilized to run a smear drive and upload data were also involved in the case.
Justice Kayani said, “This is all being done to mount pressure on a judge [Justice Sattar], who is hearing a case.”
He added that it was a dangerous matter that confidential data of the jurist, his family and his children were made public.
The head of the larger bench further remarked that state institutions might have been involved in leaking the confidential data, or their system was hacked.
There was no rocket science to ascertain the source of data leak, he added.
