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Summary The CJP gave the FIA time to reconsider transfer of officials or the court will take action.
Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Friday expressed anguish over the transfer of the investigation officers in the hajj corruption case, saying the court would cancel the transfer orders of the officials if the government failed to reinstate them to their original posts.The four-member bench of the Supreme Court was, earlier, told that Javaid Bukhari and Hussain Asghar, the two Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) officials who were investigating the case, had been transferred.Transfer of the investigation officers begins whenever the Supreme Court takes up a corruption case, the CJP remarked.He said that the court had already given its observation on the journalists who had performed hajj on the government expenses and they should not be harassed.Justice Raja Fiaz remarked that transfer of the officials who were assisting the court was tantamount to interference in the judicial work.The counsel for Hamid Saeed Kazmi pleaded that the FIA should be directed to take action against Umer Sherzai and Azam Swati for leveling false allegations against Kazmi which could not be proved. Justice Javed Iqbal said that it was not their job to do so, but he could move the lower court for any reservation in this regard.Giving time to the FIA director general to settle the issue of transfers, the court adjourned the case hearing until May 6.
