NAB submits details of 905 cases to SC

Apex court sought this record from anti-graft body on Oct 18

ISLAMABAD:

The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has handed over the details of 905 cases, wherein convictions were awarded by the trial courts and upheld by the superior judiciary.

The anti-graft body was complying with the Supreme Court’s order issued on October 18.

"NAB shall 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 October 18 order, issued by a three-judge special bench of the apex court led by Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial while hearing 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, 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.

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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 SC.

In the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa 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.

In the SC, three cases from K-P were disposed of, appeals were allowed in four, 10 dismissed while six were still pending.

In the Islamabad/Rawalpindi region, there were 314 cases wherein convictions were awarded by the trial court. In the high courts of the twin cities, the convictions were maintained in 101 cases and the accused acquitted in 105.

A total of 58 cases were pending, plea bargain was carried out in four, the accused abated in 19 and no appeal was filed in 22 of them.

In the Lahore region, there were 221 cases, wherein convictions were awarded by the trial court in 215.

In 96 cases, no appeal was filed in the Lahore High Court, plea bargain was carried out in 10, the convictions were maintained in 80 and appeals were allowed in 10 of them.

In the SC, appeals were dismissed in 10 cases from Lahore while one was pending.

In the Sukkur region, convictions were awarded in 49 cases by the trial courts, plea bargain were carried out in 38 of them. Appeals were not filed in nine cases.