NAB submits details of 905 cases to apex court
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has handed over to the Supreme Court (SC) the details of 905 cases, wherein convictions were awarded by the trial courts and upheld by the superior judiciary.
The NAB thus complied with the Supreme Court’s order issued on Oct.18. The NAB will provide to the court the record of the outcome of different references filed by it since the year 1999 and the number of convictions that have been recorded therein by the trial courts and the number thereof that have been upheld by the higher courts, read the Oct.18 order, issued by a three-judge special bench of the apex court led by Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial while hearing Pakistan Tehreek-e-insaf (PTI) chairman and deposed premier Imran Khan’s petition against the current government’s amendments to the National Accountability Ordinance (NAO) 2000.
The NAB report disclosed the title of the references, names of the accused persons, conviction dates as well as the status of the punishments in the high courts as well as the SC.
The report added that the required information had been collected from NAB regions. Giving details about the cases in the Balochistan region, the NAB report stated that convictions were awarded in 171 cases, wherein 142 were maintained by the Balochistan High Court.
Plea bargain was carried out in 10 cases while appeals were not filed in a similar number of references and one convicted person died.
In the Supreme Court, 21 cases from the province were disposed of, five allowed, 12 dismissed and leave was granted in two of them. In the Karachi region, convictions were awarded in 87 cases by the trial courts. Of them, 78 were maintained by the Sindh High Court and eight accused died.
However, two cases were disposed of while appeal in one was allowed. Ten cases from the city were still pending in the apex court.
In the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) region, convictions were awarded in 61 cases by the trial court. Of them, appeals in 60 cases were maintained by the Peshawar High Court and one convict had expired.