' This application has been moved on behalf of Muhammad Ramzan praying that proceedings under the Contempt of Court Act be initiated against Mr. Abdul Karim Langah, Civil Judge enjoying powers of Section 30 Magistrate.
2. The applicant faced trial under Article 3/4 of the Prohibition (Enforcement of Hadd) Order, 1979, in the Court of the respondent/Presiding Officer. The case was fixed for pronouncement of judgment on 18-5-1992, when, it is alleged, the respondent/Presiding Officer ordered the applicant to sit and stand rapidly for 100 times by way of punishment. He was able to do so for thirty times whereafter he fell down being a weak man. At this the learned Presiding Officer burst into laughter, the people present there clapped, and then the Presiding Officer announced that the applicant was sentenced to two years' R.I., a fine of Rs,5,000 and five stripes. According to the applicant, the act of the Presiding Officer directing him to sit and stand in Court tantamounts to contempt of Court and therefore action be initiated against him.
3. Learned Additional Advocate-General informs that the allegation that the respondent/Presiding Officer had directed the applicant to sit and stand is incorrect. It does not appeal to reason also that the respondent/Presiding Officer, who was about to pronounce order of conviction, sentencing the applicant to imprisonment would ask him to sit and stand for 100 times. Not only the allegation is not well-founded but the learned counsel also has failed to show how does it constitute contempt of Court. The application is, therefore, dismissed being without merit.