DPO transfer case: Punjab CM, Ahsan Gujjar raise objection on Nacta's chief report
Gujjar pledged Supreme Court to dismiss the case against him.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Usman Buzdar on Saturday raised objections over report compiled by head of National Counter-terrorism Authority (Nacta) regarding transfer of former Pakpattan District Police Officer (DPO) Rizwan Gondal stating that report is based ‘merely on suspicions’.
In his reply submitted with the Supreme Court (SC) by advocate general (AG), Buzdar asserted that he firmly believes in supremacy of the law and never used public office for wrongdoings.
Buzdar further alleged that report was imagination of fertile mind and fictional. He asserted that probe can’t be carried forward on basis of the content of this report.
Earlier, Ahsan Jameel Gujjar—a close aide of incumbent Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Usman Buzdar and respondent in the apex court’s suo motu case—on Saturday also raised objections over same report while terming it opposite to the facts and ambiguous.
As per details garnered, Gujjar asserted that he went to CM House with good intentions to resolve the differences between former DPO Gondal and Manika family.
He pledged Supreme Court (SC) to dismiss the case against him.
DPO Rizwan Gondal of Pakpattan was reportedly transferred after he intercepted Khawar Maneka, former husband of Prime Minister Imran Khan’s wife, for speeding. Gondal tried to stop Khawar at a checkpoint on August 23 but he did not stop. However, they chased his vehicle and managed to intercept him. The ex-husband of the first lady misbehaved with the police and hurled expletives at them when they stopped him.
Later, Gondal and the Regional Police Officer were summoned by Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar at his 7-Club Road office and told to go to Maneka’s Dera (village outhouse) and apologise to him.The DPO refused to tender the pressured apology to Khawar, saying the police was not at fault over intercepting him.
Gondal was then notified as OSD by the Punjab Inspector General of Police Syed Kaleem Imam, reportedly for refusing to seek an apology from Khawar.
