Police prevents sacked CJ from leaving home

Scores of high court judges were also sacked.

After locking the gate of Chaudhry8217;s home in the Judges Colony here, police erected barbed wire barricades and parked vehicles outside to prevent him walking out of the residence.

The move came a day after interior ministry spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema said that all the deposed judges are free to leave their homes. However, when Chaudhry tried to go out of his residence after hearing about Cheema8217;s remarks, police thwarted his move.

Several other sacked judges too were not allowed to come out of their homes in the Judges Colony.

Despite being under house arrest, Chaudhry has continued to defy the emergency. Addressing a meeting of lawyers on phone shortly after the imposition of emergency, Chaudhry asked the people to rise up against the military regime. The authorities responded by jamming all mobile phones in Islamabad for several hours.

Police on Wednesday also expelled two correspondents of private TV news channels from the Supreme Court premises, the channels said.

Dawn News and Aaj TV said their correspondents were forced to leave the apex court premises by senior police officers despite having special passes for covering proceedings.