The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Thursday filed a petition with the Islamabad High Court (IHC) against the acquittal of former president Asif Ali Zardari in the SGS and Cotecna references by an accountability court.
The NAB requested the high court to declare the decision of the trial court null and void, submitting that it had given the decision in haste without assessing the gravity of the offence of the accused.
The NAB argued that the court’s decision was based on presumptions and conjectures which had no value in the eyes of the law, adding that the court had sought the original documents from the prosecution during the hearing of the references.
