The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notices to the attorney general directing him to submit details of the cases, and their present status, registered against Anjum Aqeel Khan, the PML-N parliamentarian involved in the Rs 6 billion National Police Foundation land scam.
A three-member SC bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Tariq Parvez and Justice Amir Hani Muslim ordered strict action against all accused involved in the mega land scam without bearing pressure from any quarter.
The bench, however, adjourned further hearing for an indefinite period after it was informed that Makhdoom Ali Khan and Hamid Khan, lawyers for Anjum Aqeel Khan and other accused were on general adjournments.
On the last hearing, the bench had directed registration of cases against all of the accused involved in the scam, including Anjum Aqeel Khan. The chief justice had said that prima facie the land contracts between National Police Foundation (NPF) and M/s Land Linkers, a company owned by Aqeel, were not transparent and caused huge financial losses to the national exchequer. The court had admonished NPF’s Managing Director Zafar Qureshi for not getting the cases registered against the people, including NPF officials, involved in the scam and had directed him to proceed against the accused in accordance with the law and recover the plundered money.
SC seeks details of cases against Anjum Aqeel
