A petition requesting the Supreme Court (SC) to initiate contempt proceedings against the Elite Force Rawalpindi, Swat district administration, Defence Ministry joint secretary and four military officials for not implementing SC orders, was filed on Wednesday. The petition was filed by Mumtaz Begum and others under Article 204 of the constitution with provisions of the Contempt of Court Ordinance 2003, making Israr Abbasi, SP Headquarters (Incharge Elite Force) Rawalpindi, Niaz Ahmed, district officer (Revenue) Swat, Kamranur Rehman, DCO Swat, Dr Fakhar Alam, commissioner Malakand, Brigadier Tariq Mehmood, Colonel Sarfraz (commanding officer), Major Inayat, Major Mattie c/o Five Light Defence Unit,11th Corps, Swat and Muhammad Yaqoob, joint secretary, Ministry of Defence as respondents.
Earlier, petitioner late Abdul Ghaffar Khan (husband of the petitioner) had requested the court to help him retrieve his ancestral cultivable agricultural land and gardens allegedly occupied by the Pakistan Army, which he had left behind as an internally displaced person (IDP) when Operation Rah-e-Rast was launched against terrorists in the Swat Valley. The petition was disposed of by the apex court when the Swat Revenue Department had informed the court that all property was handed over to legal heirs of the owner in pursuance of court orders. Counsel for the petitioners, Sanaullah Zahid alleged that Tariq, Sarfraz, Inayat and Mattie took possession of the land and developed a grudge against the petitioners. The petitioners contended that court orders were intentionally disobeyed and such act fell under contempt of court.
