A division bench of the Sindh High Court on Thursday restrained the National Accountability Bureau from harassing a senior lawyer and alleged accused in a rupees five billion calling card fraud case (Call Mate).
The bench was hearing a petition filed by Nadeem Ahmed Advocate who was arrested a few days back in the case.
The Deputy Prosecutor General of the National Accountability Bureau, FIA and federal government officials are respondents in the petition.
The petitioner maintained that he was arrested without a valid warrant of arrest. Alleging harassment due to posting of unedited details of a planted programme against the superior judiciary by interviewing Malik Riaz Hussain, the petitioner maintained that he was picked up from his residence on June 16 without a warrant. The arrest was to cause harassment which is continuing despite “I have been granted bail by this court.”
Terming his arrest as illegal, the petitioner said that apparently the chairman NAB, also a respondent in the petition, “is unaware of the laws of the land.”
The petitioner prayed to the court to permanently restrain NAB from arresting him without permission of the court.
The bench, comprising Acting Chief Justice Maqbool Baqar and Justice Aqeel Ahmed Abbasi, after hearing arguments by accused, appearing in person, and of Deputy Prosecutor General NAB, adjourned further proceedings till August 9 while asking NAB not to harass the petitioner.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 22nd, 2012.
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