Fake bank accounts case: Bilawal files review petition in SC
Last updated on: 08 February,2019 11:30 pm
The petition questions the jurisdiction of the court in taking suo motu notice of an issue.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Friday has filed a review petition in the Supreme Court of Pakistan in case pertaining to fake accounts case.
The petition was filed by Advocate Khalid Jawed Khan through Advocate Qasim Mirjat.
The petition stated that the applicant was neither issued any notice or summon nor provided any opportunity of hearing before order was passed by the Honorable Court, where by certain observations were made and directions issued, while omitting to record the specific verbal directions given by honorable court during proceedings in court to expunge the name of the petitioner from JIT report.
It further stated that, “these directions were passed in the presence of the parties, their learned Advocates, government functionaries, officers of NAB, FIA and members of JIT, the learned Attorney General, the learned Advocate General Sindh, the learned law officers, media and public at large and widely reported by the media without any subsequent rebuttal or clarification from any quarter till date but completely ignored and not given effect to by JIT, NAB, the government and even by SC in its own detailed order passed and released subsequently.”
The absence of direction for expunging the name of the petitioner from JIT report as given by this honorable court during hearing from the detailed order was due to clerical error which needs rectifying.
The JIT report released by honorable court in paragraph 35 of the order has conceded that the material against the applicant “may need examination to arrive at the correct conclusion”. The applicant name was wrongfully included on the ECL and the he is not subjected to further probe, enquiry, and investigation by NAB, JIT, or any other body in respect of the allegations made in the JIT report.
The petition states that the JIT never summoned Bilawal and listed its observations in the report without ever hearing what he had to say about the case. The court’s written order cannot be different from its verbal order, the petition adds.
It further questions the jurisdiction of the court in taking suo motu notice of an issue.