Police and paramilitary troops Sunday ringed the house of a judge who had been hearing challenges to President Pervez Musharraf's October 6 re-election, an AFP reporter said. Supreme Court judge Khalilur Rehman Ramday was inside his home and security officials denied permission to visitors to enter.
"You cannot meet him," a soldier from the paramilitary Rangers force told AFP, without giving any reason. The house is in a neighbourhood reserved for senior government and judiciary officials. Paramilitary soldiers were also seen at the gate and streets leading to his house.
"They are not allowing visitors. I cannot go out and people cannot come in," Ramday's housekeeper, Walter Iqbal, told AFP by telephone, adding that the authorities deployed Rangers outside the judge's residence late Saturday.
Ramday was part of an 11-member bench that was due to rule in a few days on the legality of Musharraf's victory in his controversial presidential election last month.