LAHORE: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Monday filed a review petition against Supreme Court’s (SC) verdict that dismissed NAB’s plea to reopen Hudaibiya Mills case.
The NAB’s petition, prepared by its special prosecutor Imranul Haq, stated that the apex court ruled on its appeal in three days, adding that a reinvestigation of the case cannot be stopped. The petition also stated that the SC overlooked several materials provided by NAB.
The country’s top graft-buster also said that it had decided, in a board meeting after April, 2017, to reopen the case on its own.
The NAB has challenged, among other points of the detailed order, paragraph 23 which states that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his brother, Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif, were “subjected to intensive investigation and by those who would be considered inimical to them”.
Petition states that SC discarded the statement of Ishaq Dar on wrong premises as it was recorded before learned Magistrate after grant of pardon, by Chairman NAB; as required under section 26 NAO1999, as per prevailing practice of recording of statement of approver before Magistrate even in ordinary criminal cases, although not required by specific provision of CrPC.
Supreme Court’s three-member bench – comprising Justice Mushir Alam, Justice Qazi Faez Isa and Justice Mazhar Alam Khan Miankhel – had rejected NAB’s appeal against the order of a divisional bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC), which in 2014 had quashed the graft reference.
