Musharraf can be jailed for seven years for deporting Sharif: Legal experts

Terming the detention of former Pakistan Prime Minster Nawaz Sharif an act of abduction by the government officials, legal experts and representatives said that it was an open violation of the Supreme Courts orders and President Pervez Musharraf could be sent to jail for seven years.

Lahore, Sep 11 : Terming the detention of former Pakistan Prime Minster Nawaz Sharif an act of abduction by the government officials, legal experts and representatives said that it was an open violation of the Supreme Court's orders and President Pervez Musharraf could be sent to jail for seven years.

According to Section 363 of the PPC, Musharraf can be punished with seven years imprisonment for sending Sharif out of Pakistan without his consent, The News quoted them, as saying.

Leading lawyer Aitzaz Ahsan has termed it a flagrant violation of the apex court's verdict and called for exemplary punishment.

Such moves on the part of the government will prove disastrous for the country, which is already facing instability, Ahsan warned.

Member, Pakistan Bar Council and constitutional expert Hamid Khan said that such acts of the government proved that it wants to hamper the ongoing judicial activism in the country.

Sending Sharif back to Saudi Arabia amounts to a crime of kidnapping and cannot be tolerated by the court, he added.

Constitutional expert and former President of the Lahore High Court Association, Ahmad Awais, termed it the worst example of state terrorism.

He further claimed that the government is playing with the law and the judiciary, and has no respect for the Supreme Court.

Senator Babar Awan said, the MMA had betrayed Sharif.

President of the PML-N Lawyers Wing, Naseer Ahmad Bhutta, said Musharraf has used the state machinery against the orders of Supreme Court and violated of Article 190 of the Constitution.

ANI