KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Monday directed the Federal Investigation Agency and other authorities to file their comments on a petition against the transfer of Axact’s chief Shoaib Shaikh and four others to Islamabad for interrogation and investigation into cases pertaining to selling of fake degrees.

A two-judge bench headed by Justice Sadiq Hussain Bhatti also issued a notice to the federal law officer and put off the hearing to June 29.

The petitioners challenged the order of the district and sessions court regarding their transfer to Islamabad on the FIA application.

Meanwhile, the court reserved its order on an application of the Axact Ltd against the FIA for allegedly impounding the company’s vehicles.

The counsel for the firm allegedly involved in selling fake degrees submitted in court that the FIA had impounded nine vehicles and one of them was still parked outside an FIA office.

Additional Attorney General Salman Talibuddin denied the allegation of the petitioner’s counsel and said if any vehicle belonging to Axact was parked outside the FIA office, it could be removed from there.

Published in Dawn June 26th, 2015

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