Summary SC while maintaining the verdict of SHC dismissed interior ministry's plea for the third time.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Supreme Court (SC) on Monday directed to exclude Ayyan Ali’s name from Exit Control List (ECL).
The hearing of interior ministry’s plea against Sindh High Court’s (SHC) verdict was held by a three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Saqib Nisar.
SC while maintaining the verdict of SHC dismissed interior ministry’s plea for the third time.
The Chief Justice inquired: “Ayyan’s name has been included in ECL for the third time. The court should be told that while utilizing section-109, how many times the name of murderers has been put in ECL?”
Additional Attorney General replied that referee judge declared verdict of Ayyan’s ECL case on January 19.
The widow of late investigation officer Aijaz Chaudhry had also filed a plea in this regard, he said.
Chief Justice expressed disappointment that despite the passage of such a long span from June 2015, the investigation of the case has yet not been completed.
Ayyan Ali was arrested from Benazir International airport on March 14, 2015 for smuggling US $5 lac after which a case was registered against her.
After spending four months in Rawalpindi’s Adiala jail and attending 13 hearings, she was granted bail in July.
However; her name was included in ECL after Customs Officer Ejaz Mehmood who was investigating the case was murdered.
