Election delay case: Justice Amin-Ud-Din recuses himself after SC order on 184(3) proceedings.

ISLAMABAD -- Justice Amin-Ud-Din Khan on Thursday recused himself from a five-member bench hearing the election delay case after a Supreme Court order halted proceedings under Article 184(3).

The Supreme Court was set to resume the hearing of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's (PTI) plea against the Election Commission of Pakistan's (ECP) decision to defer the elections in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa at 11:30 but the hearing was delayed following Justice Amin-Ud-Din's recusal.

An SC bench headed by Justice Qazi Faez Isa on Wednesday ordered the postponement of cases being heard under Article 184(3) of the Constitution till the amendments made in the Supreme Court Rules 1980 regarding the discretionary powers of the chief justice to form benches.

Justice Amin-Ud-Din concurred with Justice Isa while Justice Shahid Waheed dissented with the majority order of 2-1 in a suo moto case regarding the grant of 20 marks to Hafiz-e-Quran students while seeking admission to MBBS/BDS Degree under Regulation 9(9) of the MBBS and BDS (Admissions, House Job and Internship) Regulations, 2018.

At the outset of today's hearing, when the five-member bench came to the courtroom, Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial said Justice Amin wanted...