Pakistan chief justice investigates own son He apparently initiated the case himself after days of rumours and press speculation that his son, Arsalan Chaudhry, accepted bribes and foreign trips from a high-profile property developer. It is the latest bizarre twist in a country where the courts and parliament are battling for supremacy and many will see the hearing as an attempt by the controversial chief justice to repair his reputation. As he arrived in court, Arsalan denied any wrongdoing and told waiting reporters that the legal action meant he could not even go home having been barred from his father's house. He is accused of accepting almost £3m from Malik Riaz, who has built housing estates around Lahore and Rawalpindi. Inside the packed courtroom, the Irfan Qadir, the attorney general who was also summoned, argued that the chief justice should not be part of the three-man bench. However, he was told that no special measures would be taken. The Chief Justice is an outspoken and controversial figure in Pakistan. In 2008, he became the figurehead of the lawyers' movement which eventually brought an end to the rule of Pervez Musharraf. Today, however, he has clashed frequently with the government and is accused of using the courts for party politics. In April he found Yousuf Raza Gilani, the Prime Minister, in contempt of court for failing to re-open corruption proceedings against the country's President. The International Commission of Jurists recently criticised his apparently arbitrary initiation of "suo moto" proceedings based on articles he had read in Pakistani newspapers, often intervening in cases where the government had failed to act.