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The former VC filed the petition under article 199 of the Constitution of Pakistan making respondents to NAB director general and director, investigation officer and the administrative judge accountability courts, seeking an order to declare his arrest illegal and unlawful.
Dr Mujahid in his petition also implored that the respondents be directed to restrain from involving the petitioner in any other investigation as all allegations pertaining to corruption and corrupt practices have already been investigated.
He contended the court that NAB made his arrest illegal despite he has nothing to do the allegations levelled against him. He implored the warrant issued for his arrest was also illegal and unlawful which needed to be quashed. He further said the administrative judge sent him on physical and judicial remand illegally and the petitioner was liable to be discharged of the case.
He contended he was not being provided medical facilities. He also requested the court to direct the officials to provide him necessary medical facilities including admission to a medical facility for treatment. The petitioner said he was ready to furnish bail bonds to the satisfaction of the court. He maintained in the petition that his basic rights which were guaranteed in the Constitution and he was left with no other option but to approach the constitutional jurisdiction of the court.
He requested the court to release him by granting him a post-arrest bail as the entire case against petitioner was illegal, void, without lawful authority, of no legal effect and one of further inquiry.
Shedding light over his educational and teaching career as well as his services he had served in different educational institutions, he said he was the only former VC in the history of the Punjab University who has written eight books. In 1985, he won Abdus Salam Prize for physics which was instituted by Nobel Laureate Professor Dr Abdus Salam from his Nobel prize money. After serving at different institutions abroad, he was awarded Presidential Pride of Performance Award on March 23, 1999, in the field of education by the then president of Pakistan.
On March 23, 2015, the government of Pakistan conferred Sitara-e-Imtiaz on the petitioner in the field of education.
Accused former VC Dr Mujahid Kamran was arrested for his alleged involvement of making over 500 illegal appointments, most of them in grade 17 and above, between 2013 and 2016, violating the procurement rules. Dr Kamran was also accused of illegally appointing his wife Dr Shazia Qureshi as the principal of the Punjab University Law College (PULC). He was also accused of awarding scholarships to his favourite students.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 28th, 2018.
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