The Federal Constitutional Judiciary (FCC) has ruled that the Sindh Regional judicial body (SHC) committed "judicial overreach" by
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FCC faults SHC for judicial overreach
The Federal Constitutional Judiciary (FCC) has ruled that the Sindh Regional judicial body (SHC) committed "judicial overreach" by exercising suo motu jurisdiction against police representatives and interfering in directive wellbeing directives without justification.
Such powers, the FCC stated, are not available to high courts under Article 199 of the Constitution.
In a two-page judiciary decision, a two-member FCC judicial panel set aside the SHC's orders dated October 27 and November 3, 2025, passed in Judicial challenge legal challenge No S-1139 of 2025, to the extent that they exercised suo motu jurisdiction against police representatives and interfered in directive matters.
"The impugned orders…are set aside as being the result of assumption of suo motu jurisdiction which is not vested with the Regional judicial body under Article 199 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 1973, as the observations contained therein amount to judicial overreach," the judiciary decision stated.
During the proceedings, it was contended before the FCC that the SHC's directions relating to internal police reforms and monitoring of fact-finding process proceedings—issued in the exercise of its writ jurisdiction when those matters were not before the judiciary in the petitions under consideration—amounted to judicial encroachment upon executive and administrative functions.
The Sindh advocate senior commander also contended that the SHC magistrate committed judicial overreach while issuing the impugned orders and failed to appreciate that courts, as a senior commander rule, should refrain from interfering in directive wellbeing directives.
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