ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, displeased by Federal Commerce Secretary Zafar Mehmood’s visit to China at the behest of President Asif Ali Zardari, remarked that the president “should know the consequences of such actions,” Express News reported on Thursday.
The chief justice made this statement while hearing the National Insurance Company Limited (NICL) Rs5.34 billion scam case in which the Supreme Court had earlier ordered for legal proceedings to be carried out against Federal Minister Makhdoom Amin Fahim and others involved in the case.
A three-member bench of the apex court, presided by the chief justice and comprising Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice Amir Hani Muslim, was hearing the suo moto case.
The main accused in the NICL scandal have categorically refused to deposit the Rs420 million liable amount owed to NICL.
Earlier, Mohsin Habib Warraich, the principal accused in the case and son of former state minister for defence production Major (retd) Habibullah Warraich, claimed the Rs420 million amount was “unjustified.”
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What happened to the investigation into the NLC scandal? When are those people being summoned?
It seems that these guys are proactively one step ahead of the SC. The SC should stop giving in to excuses and sentence a few of them to stop this gerry mandering.
he has gone with the 'king' that makes him kingsman - these are above the law of land.