The three-judge bench also held that the deputy speaker misinterpreted the apex court order on Article-63A related to the defection clause and “subverted the Constitution”. As the hearing resumed earlier today, the counsel representing Punjab Assembly Deputy Speaker Dost Mazari, Irfan Qadir, and the counsel for Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Farooq H Naek, boycotted the SC proceedings. The proceedings began with a three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial presiding over the hearing. The chief justice, however, told Naek that he had done well in assisting the court on Monday and permitted him to take his seat. Read more: PML-N denounces top court verdict on Punjab CM poll as 'murder of justice'
