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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 11 (UPI) -- The chief justice of Pakistan's Supreme Court, who was fired by President Pervez Musharraf, is refusing to submit his resignation.
"I will never resign voluntarily. I have done nothing wrong," Chief Justice Iftikar Muhammad Chaudhry told Munir A. Malik, the president of the Supreme Court Bar Association, the Press Trust of India reported.
Chaudhry will defend himself before a panel of judges that will hear his case on March 13, the Press Trust said.
Musharraf fired Chaudhry on Friday, accusing him of corruption and misuse of authority.
The Pakistan Bar Council on Sunday objected to a large group of police that prevented lawyers and the media from meeting with Chaudhry at his official residence, describing it as an "illegal house arrest."
"He is in illegal detention," Ali Ahmed Kurd, vice-chairman of the lawyers' group told the Press Trust of India. "There is no other way to describe the situation as no one is being allowed to meet him."
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