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KARACHI, Oct 8: Justice Mohammad Athar Saeed of the Sindh High Court adjourned the hearing of a quashment petition moved by a police officer after recording the objection raised by a former anti-corruption judge, who initiated the impugned proceedings.
Petitioner Chaudry Iftikhar Ahmed, former director of the Federal Investigation Agency, was proceeded against for his alleged failure to produce documents in a case against a former Pakistan Steel chairman. The production was ordered by Judge Mohammad Afzal Khan, presiding officer of the anti-corruption court (central), since retired. A sessions court took cognizance of the judge’s complaint against the FIA director, who approached the high court for quashment of the proceedings.
Respondent Afzal Khan filed objections on Monday saying the petitioner had been evading trial and had filed a misleading affidavit.
Bringing the objections on record Justice Athar Saeed issued a notice to the deputy attorney-general for Oct 29 and also asked Advocate Ali Ahmed Junejo, who is assisting the court as amicus curiae, to make his submissions on that date.
Plea disposed of
Justice Sarmad Jalal Usmani of the SHC disposed of former senator Asif Ali Zardari’s application seeking the transfer of the former Sindh irrigation secretary Alam Baloch murder case against him from the court of the Hyderabad District & Sessions Judge to another court, adds PPI.
Mr Zardari, along with others, is charged with killing former federal secretary Alam Baloch and his gunman on September 18, 1997, in the limits of the Qasimabad police station in Hyderabad. The matter was pending before Hyderabad District & Sessions Judge Zafar Ahmed Khan Sherwani.
On Monday, when the matter was taken up, Mr Zardari’s counsel, Abu Bakar Zardari, told the court that the Hyderabad DJ had been transferred and now posted as an additional judge in the SHC.
