Law: Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898)

Section: 497

Law: National Accountability Ordinance, 1999

Section: 9,24(a)

Law: Constitution of Pakistan, 1973

Section: 185(3)

Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898)--- ----Ss. 497 ,  498---National Accountability Ordinance (XVIII of 1999), Ss. 9 ,  24(a)---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 185(3)---Corruption and corrupt practices---Bail, grant/confirmation of---Many co-accused persons whose role was prima facie worse than the present accused persons, had not even been arrested, thus the accused persons could not be treated differently---Question as to why such pick and choose and what underlay this duality was not intelligible---Special Prosecutor NAB could also not provide a satisfactory answer as to the intelligible differentia justifying the classification between the arrested and those left at large---Although the role of the accused persons prima facie appeared to be culpable and they must face its consequences but not at present stage when many others similarly placed persons were at large---Supreme Court observed that while exercising its discretionary jurisdiction it would not like to pass an order perpetuating a classification which prima face did not appear to be based on an intelligible differentia notwithstanding the provision contained in section 24(a) of the National Accountability Ordinance, 1999---Petitions for leave to appeal were converted into appeals and allowed, and ad-interim bail of some of the accused persons were confirmed, while other accused persons were granted post-arrest bail. Sardar M. Latif Khan Khosa, Senior Advocate Supreme Court, Ch. Akhtar Ali, Advocate-on-Record, Faqir Dad Khan Khoso, Shakil Ahmed Khan, Haji Abdul Razziq and Hafeez-ur-Rehman for Petitioners (in C.P. No. 258 of 2017). Raja M. Ibrahim Satti, Senior Advocate Supreme Court, Syed Rifaqat Hussain Shah, Advocate-on-Record and Sohail Akbar Shah for Petitioners (in C.P. No. 260 of 2017). Farooq H. Naek, Senior Advocate Supreme Court, Syed Rafaqat Hussain Shah, Advocate-on-Record, Abdul Rasheed Solangi for Petitioners (in C.P. No. 268 of 2017). M. Ahsan Bhoon, Advocate Supreme Court and Ms. Tasneem Ameen, Advocate-on-Record (Absent) for Petitioners (in C.P. No. 475 of 2017). Nasir Mehmood Mughal, Special Prosecutor NAB for NAB. hearing date: 29-03-2017. ORDER EJAZ AFZAL KHAN, J.---These…

Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/digixyei/sldsystempk.com/view/master-layout/view_case.php on line 492