The federal law ministry had last week sought new nominees from the LHC. However, D&SJ Elahi had no high profile case on his cause list. Judge Naeem Arshad had been hearing cases of Ramzan Sugar Mills against Leader of Opposition in National Assembly Shahbaz Sharif, his sons Hamza and Suleman. The proceedings of Chaudhry Sugar Mills case against PML-N vice president Maryam Nawaz and her cousin Yousaf Abbas were also pending before his court.
District & Sessions Judge Masood Arshad, the presiding judge of a special court for Control of Narcotics Substance (CNS), was stopped from working in middle of the hearing of a bail petition filed by the former law minister Rana Sanaullah.
On August 28, the judge had returned to the court after an hour break only to inform the prosecution and the defence that he had been barred from hearing the case through a message he received on Whatsapp.
Later, a law ministry's two-day-old letter written to the LHC registrar emerged showing that the services of judge of the CNS had been repatriated to his parent department.
Through another notification, D&SJ Chaudhry Humayun Imtiaz had been transferred and posted from the post of LHC registrar to Gujranwala. Director General Punjab Judicial Academy, D&SJ Abdul Sattar had been posted as the registrar.