LAHORE: The Lahore High Court chief justice on Wednesday dropped proceedings of a suo motu notice taken in 2008 against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for allegedly scandalising the judiciary during the lawyers’ movement.

A deputy attorney general told the chief justice that then senior puisne judge (PCO regime) had taken the notice for alleged character assassination of judges by Mr Sharif.

The law officer said no progress had been made in the case and deposed judges had been reinstated in the wake of the lawyers’ movement. He said the suo motu had become infractuous.

Chief Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah examined the case record and discharged the proceedings.