The University of Karachi has officially cancelled the LLB degree of Justice Tariq Mahmood Jahangiri, following the approval of its competent authority.
In a notification issued on Friday, the varsity confirmed that its syndicate, during a meeting held on August 31, 2024, endorsed Resolution No. 06 and upheld the recommendation of the Unfair Means Committee (UFM). As a result, Justice Jahangiri’s LLB enrolment number AIL-7124/87 and seat number 22857 were withdrawn and cancelled.
According to the notification, Justice Jahangiri was found guilty of using unfair means and has been barred for three years from gaining admission to any university or college, as well as from appearing in any university examination.
The university also clarified that the Islamabad High Court (IHC) judge had never been a student of Islamia Law College, Karachi, in 1989, as had been claimed earlier.
The development follows a controversial series of events. Earlier, the Sindh High Court (SHC) had suspended KU’s Unfair Means Committee decision and the syndicate’s declaration regarding the invalidity of Justice Jahangiri’s law degree.
The matter was taken to court after a petition challenged the KU committee’s ruling on August 17, 2024, when the degree was initially declared void.
During the proceedings, the petitioner’s counsel argued that under the university’s own regulations, all punishments under Regulation 14 must be awarded by the syndicate upon the recommendation of the UFM committee, which is authorised either to hold an inquiry itself or to delegate it to members.
It was contended that the committee’s decision did not reflect whether Justice Jahangiri had been given a fair hearing, nor did it involve collecting records from Islamia Law College.
The counsel maintained that the cancellation was carried out summarily to malign the judge, particularly in the wake of a letter written by six IHC judges, and stressed that the matter was already sub judice before the Supreme Court.
