A two-member bench of the apex court on Tuesday ordered the JIT to suspend its investigations till the court decides a petition questioning alleged partiality of the investigators.
The bench also turned down a request from NAB Prosecutor General KK Agha for a larger bench to hear Dr Arsalan’s review petition.
Sardar Ishaq, counsel for Dr Arsalan, tried to convince the bench that some JIT members would have an apparent bias against his client since they were closely associated with Malik Riaz and were also previously affected by his father’s – the chief justice’s – rulings.
On the request of Attorney General Irfan Qadir, the NAB chairman had constituted a five-member JIT to probe Malik Riaz’s charges against Dr Arasalan.
Justice Jawwad S Khawaja, during Tuesday’s hearing, observed that apparently the AG had violated court orders by asking the government to “set the state machinery in motion” by only choosing NAB for this purpose and supervising the investigation himself.
The court adjourned the case till August 2.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 1st, 2012.
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Those preach must watch what the says as people will judge them by their words, arslan you got 900 million, by which magic? Under investigation, you can run but can not hide, what will you do when your father is no more CJ. Some uncles will oblige you? CJ must conceive that his son is a cheat and not businessman sorry for that but it s fact.
What is judicial terrorism?
NAB is totally biased and are all beneficiary of Bahria town directly or indirectly. Arsalan has raised this issue on numerous occasion. SC took timely decision to put an halt on biased and one sided sham investigation.
what SC wants??? why they stop JIT from further investigation ?? May be statement of Mr Salman and Mr Khalil prove final saying for this case.
so the SC came promptly to his defense.....say much..!
this must be going to some conclusion definately which forced SC to order stop working JIT on this case
@Sultan Khan:
I think we have moved on now, the culpability of Arsalan is becoming less and less important. The conduct of the judges of the Supreme Court and their support for Arsalan whose petitions are being heard at priority basis mind you raisequestions whe
ther it was a solo venture or he was a frontman for striking deals and buying justice.This article says it all abt Arsalan - 'Son of the Supreme Court of Pakistan' http://criticalppp.com/archives/222051?utmsource=twitterfeed&utmmedium=twitter
A criminal commits a crime motivated by his greed and lust for money and all that goes with it. Now that this criminal is caught we should have just let the laws of the land take their course and bring the whole affair to its logical conclusion. But ---- ! No, as ususal we must create hypes and make it our business to defend the crime and the criminal simply for the reason of the criminal Arsalan Chaudhry being son of Iftikhar Chaudhry the sitting Chief Justice. Claims and counter-claims of his innocence have created more than enough doubts in ordinary minds. This rotten affair has become now a reason for all to suspect involvement of not just the criminal son but also his father and, at least, some of his colleagues in the highest court of Pakistan to hinder the due process of law and are suspected, and not without some questionable connections, to obstruct justice and protect the criminal. It's dangerous and it is threatening the very credibility of the judges supposedly dispensing justice.
The more Arsalan is using delaying techniques and raising frivolus objections the more it is being established that there is substance in the story. If he is clear and hasn't done anything wrong he should not worry as to who is in the Joint Investigation Team. Merely shaking hands, talking and smiling does not constitute a bias. Moreover, if some injustice is done to him by the NAB The Honourable Justices Khilji and Khawaja are there in the SC to rectify the wrong.