PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Tuesday restrained the National Accountability Bureau, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, from arresting and summoning five serving and former senior police officers in a high profile case of alleged embezzlement in procurement of weapons for the police department, local media authorities reported.
A single-member bench judge, Roohul Amin Khan, issued a notice to the director general of NAB, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, asking him to explain the position on the notices issued to the suspects for appear before the bureau for probe, reportedly.
It asked him not to take any action against the six officers till Aug 24, the next hearing into their petitions, sources further revealed.
The six officers, including then commandant of Frontier Constabulary (FC) Abdul Majeed Marwat, then additional IGP Operation (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) Abdul Latif Ghandapur (now retired), DIG at Central Police Office (CPO) Sajid Ali Khan, then DIG Headquarters Peshawar Mohammad Salman, then AIG (Establishment) at CPO Kashif Alam and then DIG (telecommunications) Sadiq Kamal Orakzai, have filed petitions against the issuance of ‘call-up notices’ to them by the NAB asking them to appear and join investigation regarding the said weapons procurement case.