The judicial bench comprising Justice Khwaja Imtiaz Ahmed and Justice Ebradur Rehman Lodhi inquired from the lawyers of Musa Gilani and Shahabuddin about the absence of their clients. The lawyers informed the bench that their clients were unaware that the court was scheduled to hear their bail pleas today.
The court expressed dissatisfaction and told the lawyers that it was their duty to inform them and rejected their petitions.
Ali Musa and Shahabuddin are accused of pressuring officials of the health ministry in 2010 to allocate huge quotas of controlled chemical ephedrine to two different pharmaceutical companies.
Arguing for the bail pleas, the lawyers of Musa Gilani and Shahbuddin had said ephedrine was not included in the list of narcotics and the case could not be investigated by the Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) and that the ANF had no other evidence other than the statements of the two approvers, which were given under duress.
Earlier on August 29, the bench had reserved judgement of the petition.
The ANF can now arrest both accused under the procedures of the law.
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Why did the court reserve it's judgement for a week before dismissing Makhdoom Shahabuddin's and Musa Gilani's bail application? ANF has no evidence. The only argument ANF came up with was that they had witnesses against the accused, but the ANF never mentioned witnesses' names or their testimonies. Makhdoom Shahabuddin was implicated in the case to prevent him from becoming PM. Corrupt and powerful are afraid of him. He is one of the few honest politicians in Pakistan PPP. Remember Makhdoom Shahabuddin initiated an inquiry into ephedrine case. God save honest and innocent people.
No special treatment like Arsalan ? How strange? No one man commission? It is nice to be related to the Hadrath Qadi e Azam.
All judges need to be replaced as a corrupt chief justice is infiltrating its poison to the whole judiciary People are accused of making call with np vidance and thry will be arrested and Arslan with solid proof is wandring about SHAME ON JUDGES AND THEIR SUPORTERS
@MA76:
in this case they can appoint one member commission of DevilHunterX :)
Rejects bail pleas OR rejects bail applications?
@MA76: But they are lucky to people with Ostrich mentality and Goldfish memory e.g. You.
Inshallah they will be bought to justice. All that cash will return and it will be a slap on the faces of the PPP gov.
Too bad they were not related to CJ otherwise they could have had a commision investigating them!
it will have the same ending as it happened with monis elahi or qadir gillani case where there were strong evidences against them but they were acquitted.
great news..let see who arrest them... :)
ANF should not waste any time. Arrest them. A few days in jail and they will cough up large amounts.
The were absent from the court to avoid arrest by ANF
Of course!!!