The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday issued a contempt of court notice to former prime minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf in the rental power projects (RPPs) case.
A three-member SC bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry heard case of Raja Pervaiz Ashraf’s letter to the SC in which he had asked for a commission to inquire into RPPs case.
The court asked him to appear in person before the bench in two weeks.
Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry had said in Wednesday’s hearing that the former PM had tried to influence the court by writing a letter for constituting a commission to investigate the RPPs scam.
The chief justice said Ashraf had already accepted the court’s decision in the RPPs case that had attained finality, so there was no need to re-examine the verdict and form a commission to probe into the issue.
The chief justice said the review petition was withdrawn in the RPPs case, so how was it possible to revisit the court’s verdict and appoint the commission.
Earlier, appearing before the court on notice, NAB Prosecutor General KK Agha submitted before the court that although he did not agree with the letter, if the court referred the matter to any other forum for probe, he would have no objection.
Wasim Sajjad submitte
SC serves contempt notice on Raja Pervaiz Ashraf
Orders former PM appear before bench in person in two weeks
ISLAMABAD
INP
The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday issued a contempt of court notice to former prime minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf in the rental power projects (RPPs) case.
A three-member SC bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry heard case of Raja Pervaiz Ashraf’s letter to the SC in which he had asked for a commission to inquire into RPPs case.
The court asked him to appear in person before the bench in two weeks.
Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry had said in Wednesday’s hearing that the former PM had tried to influence the court by writing a letter for constituting a commission to investigate the RPPs scam.
The chief justice said Ashraf had already accepted the court’s decision in the RPPs case that had attained finality, so there was no need to re-examine the verdict and form a commission to probe into the issue.
The chief justice said the review petition was withdrawn in the RPPs case, so how was it possible to revisit the court’s verdict and appoint the commission.
Earlier, appearing before the court on notice, NAB Prosecutor General KK Agha submitted before the court that although he did not agree with the letter, if the court referred the matter to any other forum for probe, he would have no objection.
Wasim Sajjad submitted that his client had dispatched the letter to the chief justice of Pakistan through the SC registrar’s office, adding that it was not aimed at influencing the court.
He further contended that an impression was created in the media that if the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) decided the case in favour of Ashraf, it would have been considered that the former prime minister used his influence.
The chief justice said the letter was written on the letterhead of prime minister and did not give a positive impression, adding that such type of dispatches should not be addressed to the court.
Justice Gulzar Ahmed also observed that such type of letters in a personal capacity of the prime minister should not be addressed to the court.
d that his client had dispatched the letter to the chief justice of Pakistan through the SC registrar’s office, adding that it was not aimed at influencing the court.
He further contended that an impression was created in the media that if the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) decided the case in favour of Ashraf, it would have been considered that the former prime minister used his influence.
The chief justice said the letter was written on the letterhead of prime minister and did not give a positive impression, adding that such type of dispatches should not be addressed to the court.
Justice Gulzar Ahmed also observed that such type of letters in a personal capacity of the prime minister should not be addressed to the court.
SC has no backbone. All these cases have been pending for a year and nothing happened. Now all of a sudden the SC is getting anxious to resolve these cases. Why? I think its a political stunt to generate posive views of the public towards the SC. Its a shame that even the judges think that Pakistani people are too stupid to see thru the topi drama. What even more sad is that they are probably correct.
I dont agree with you. Such moves are designed to improve the chances of success for PMLN whose leaders r related to CJ.
chief justice is very clearly biased against ppp,i think he must resign,otherwise the elections are not going to be fair
yes it seems like a deliberate move by c j to damage ppp,s election campaign,cj must go
Damage what election campaign?? Oh I get it,the campaign to do even worse then the last 5 years lmfao.PPP must go.All you PPP idiots,when will you ever realize what this PPP government has done to this country,give me one good thing they have done,and please save me the democracy nonsense,it didn't help one person in the country except the thieves themselves.Bye Bye,don't let the door hit you in the a.. on your way out.One Bhutto got hanged,the other got shot and the clever Zardari got away with …der and Billions.
But I do agree the CJ is a clown.
PPP will win next elections becoz other two choices PTI and PMLN are worse than PPP.
The reality is that NOTHING is worse than PPP, or more appropriately, Zardari party.
this is the worst supreme court in our history
c j must resign and join pml n openly
CJ has no pressure now, so he can take some to the docks. ex PM now has no powers, nor he has support of President!
Cj must take action against these types evils of the society with iron hand.this is necessary and now time for clear holy land our mother land all type of wastage and these type of evils of the society chief teray janisar bay shumar bay shumar
THIS should stop before people stop taking SC seriously
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