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<b>IB directed to remove bugs from courts, judges’ residences: SC bans intelligence personnel from courts</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Monday reprimanded government lawyers for filing a “scandalous” dossier of evidence against Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. The court fined the government Rs 100,000 and suspended the advocate on record who filed the evidence.

A 13-member full court bench, headed by Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday, also banned all unauthorised personnel, including intelligence personnel, from entering the Supreme Court and high courts and ordered the Intelligence Bureau (IB) to sweep the courts and their judges’ homes of any bugging devices, and file an affidavit to this effect in the SC next Monday.

The documents, which were part of a civil miscellaneous application filed by the government, contained unidentified and unsigned papers which were allegedly abusive of the chief justice. Aitzaz Ahsan said the language in the documents was so abusive that he could not read them out. He said the file contained photographs taken inside Justice Chaudhry’s home as well as anonymous complaints and derogatory remarks about senior judges.
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No surprise here. In Pakistan they bug everything including Mushy's den.