Supreme Court. PHOTO: EXPRESS/FILE
Deputy Attorney General Sajid Illyas Bhatti while submitting report on behalf of Islamabad police said that the police had completed the investigation regarding the matter.
The banners contained defamatory and slanderous allegations against former chief justice Jawwad S Khawaja.
The three-judge bench of the apex court, headed by Justice Ejaz Afzal has directed former president Lahore High Court Bar Association, Rawalpindi bench, to go through the report. He has been requested to file a concise statement.
According to the police report 12 persons allegedly found involved in placing of banners and posters in various areas of federal capital. This included Muhammad Nasir, Muhammad Shafique, Muhammad Rashid, Tariq Mehmood, Mubashir Luqman, Rao Awais Mehtab, Danial Luqman, Muhammad Naveed Sheikh and Adeel Ahmed. Muhammad Shoaib, Sulaman Iqbal and Afifa Rao were also found allegedly guilty of the crime. The report said that challans have been submitted against them in the trial court of Islamabad. Of them three had obtained bail, stated the report.
The report also said that the ocular as well as circumstantial evidence against the accused have been collected and placed on record. While efforts are underway to unearth the actual masterminds to reach the case to its logical conclusion, the police requested the court to dispose of the case.
On the direction of apex court Islamabad police registered an FIR against unknown persons for placing the banners in the federal capital.
The petitioner, former president LHCBA, Rawalpindi bench, Sheikh Ahsan-ud-Din argued that the police has not proceeded against those who were actually behind placing banners.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 18th, 2015.
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