LAHORE: A division bench of the Lahore High Court on Monday dismissed an Intra-Court Appeal (ICA) seeking contempt of court proceedings against Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah Khan for allegedly scandalising the judges and the judiciary.

A bar member, Shahid Rana, had submitted that the interior minister at a recent press conference played an alleged leaked audio of a telephonic conversation between former Punjab chief minister Chaudhry Pervez Elahi and Supreme Court Bar Association President Abid Zuberi. He contended that the conversation was a personal affair between a lawyer and his client, which was recorded and leaked by breaching the law of privacy.

The petitioner said he filed a petition for action against the interior minister but a single bench dismissed it. He asked the court to set aside the decision of the single bench and punish the interior minister under the contempt of court law.

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