Lahore High Court Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial on Tuesday referred the petitions seeking quashment of three corruption references prepared by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) against the Sharifs, to a referee judge after the division bench hearing the matter gave a dissenting order.
The division bench comprising Justice Khawaja Imtiaz Ahmad and Justice Farrukh Irfan Khan heard three petitions titled Ittefaq Foundries Limited etc, Hudabia Papers etc and Shahmim Akhtar etc versus the Federation of Pakistan, the National Accountability Bureau and the accountability court judge, Rawalpindi, at the LHC Rawalpindi Bench.
The bench differed on the point whether there was no necessity or requirement to give observations that NAB authorities were competent to proceed against the petitioners if investigation was initiated again.
The matter was referred to the chief justice by the senior judge who had nominated Justice Sheikh Najamul Hassan to decide the query.
While Justice Farrukh Irfan Khan appended a note that NAB was competent to proceed against the petitioners, if the investigation was initiated again according to law mainly on the ground that 12 years had elapsed, it would not only amount to give a premium to prosecution of their own faults but also provide them another opportunity ostensibly to fill up their lacunas and equip them with better tools for combating and victimizing petitioners at the hands of NAB.
Advocate Akram Sheikh represented the petitioners.
In its references, NAB accused the Sharifs of corruption of Rs 642.743 million in the Hudaibya Paper Mills.
The second reference – the state versus Nawaz Sharif, etc. – relates to the Raiwind assets. The main allegation is that the accused had acquired vast tracts of land upon which palatial houses and mansions were built with resources which appeared to be grossly disproportionate to their known sources of income. Apart from Nawaz Sharif, his mother is an accused in this case.
In the state versus Ittefaq Foundries case, Nawaz Sharif, Abbas Sharif and Kamal Qureshi are accused of committing corruption of Rs 1,063 million. The main allegation in the case is that Ittefaq Foundries Ltd obtained cash finance from the National Bank.
Very sad indeed, that well known crooks with millions stashed away abroad will escape any punishment yet again but we all live in hope that a day will come soon, when all these crooks and villains will be swept away.
PTI Zindabad
Sharifs are crooked to the core but always find a way out. I hope they get nailed along with Zardari and the crooked PPP.
Pakistanis do not mind if Sharif brothers run away from the country and take all their looted money with them. At least Pakistan's blood will stop being sucked off.
Although I have no doubt one day one of them will be in jail from sharif family.
YAY HAI NAYA PAKISTAN
Make the right decision on May 11th Pakistan
nawaz and the gang must be forced to disclose how they made so much money in such short period of time.
Shame on the justices for still letting them get away…..
Have you ever visited High Court specially Lahore , if not then you must pay a visit, Judiciary is playing a vital role in destroying this country, they are not normal Human beings they are Elite , who comes @11 in their chambers and leave @ 2 approximately 3 hours they serve , so 50 cases are done in 3 hours so still yo expect JUSTICE, they walk like Pharaohs n rest are dogs , you are not allowed to talk or you will be punished, its vicious circle, they are not Judges they are Stooges, so dont expect anything from them
If you want situation in Pakistan to improve. Law has to be same for every one. These crooks should be held accountable for defaulting and stealing public money.
Judges have to be courage and needs to follow the law. Under PTI insha ALLAH you will see these thugs will pay all the money they have stolen from Pakistan
Haha. All extremists r with Imran Khan. Have fun.
No my friend you are using the wrong word 'extremist'….all the people with JUNOON are with PTI!!!
YAY HAI NAYA PAKISTAN
Imran is a poodle of Establishment and jews and Christians. What change will he bring about. He had no remorse for getting money from his divorced wife. He received two plot s from Shareef on written application that misstated that he was homeless and plotless.
My friend you are speaking without any facts, allow me correct you please:
-For Shukat Khanoum the plot he received was from Punjab government, not from Sharif's personal looted wealth. The other plot you might be referring to was given as a captain for winning the world cup in 1992.
-You accuse IK for 'poddle of establishment…" First people like you accused Oct 31 lahore jalsa was by Gen. Pasha….then we have seen many more jalsa all over pakistan with large crowds and also on March 23 -2013 again larger crowd than Oct 31-2011……and don't even bring jews and christians into this conversation…
You should accept the change that has come in paksitan, and forget about the parties your grandfather and fathers have supported….people like Zardari and Shariffs who eat from the same plate and form coaliation government will pay back all the looted assets…very soon…
YAY HAI NAYA PAKISTAN
Sharif family should also provide proof of origin of their wealth to justify purchase of property in UK and Saudi Arabia????
this is excellent point if this was legit money they would have done it long time ago, but how can they if it is looted money!!!!
We need to clean supreme court from these corrupt judges and their political party alliances.We all know these lawers educational standard and their low mentality in Pakistan.These lawers and judges are also the root cause of not having proper justice system in Pakistan. They always support terrorists.
legal get away in process for Sharifs, since corruption is done 12 years ago and cases are old, lets close it they may have done billions rupees corruption but as people has forgotten about it lets close the useless cases! this is justice for mega crooks we have in place!
Whether they are corrupt or not the matter is before the court. I wonder why PPP Govt has not pursued these cases while it was in power. The judiciary and NAB are equally responsible for delay. Interestingly NAB chairman an appointee of Zardari will also go against the Sharif family. BY the way what could be the cost of Raiwind State? all infrastructure leading to Raiwind palace was built at provincial govt expense. Can somebody enlighten me about the taxes paid by sharifs?
Hasi one day you will see and it will be written in history that the destruction of this country was lead by Army Judiciary and Agencies they all have been assigned the duty to destroy this country. Keep my words, they are making another Bangladesh.
Don't worry, our beloved CJ and rest of the jury along with them
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