Islamabad: Pakistan's Supreme Court can take suo motu action on former premier Benazir Bhutto's assassination, deposed apex court judge Rana Bhagwandas has said.

Bhagwandas, who was sacked after he refused to endorse the emergency imposed by President Pervez Musharraf last year, said Bhutto's assassination was a "big tragedy" and a "fit case" for initiating suo motu action.

The former judge, who was under house arrest for over a month last year, said his movements were restricted. Besides, deposed Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, three judges in Peshawar, two in Lahore and three in Islamabad were still under detention, he said.

"Justice Chaudhry was not only detained, but his children are not being allowed to attend school," Bhagwandas, the lone Hindu judge to reach the highest echelons of Pakistan's judiciary told Dawn.

He said the legal fraternity's movement against the government had slowed down because of Bhutto's killing and the detention of key leaders of the campaign.

Source : PTI