RPP implementation: Supreme Court rejects NAB’s report

Rejecting the report presented by NAB, Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Thursday questioned why the court’s orders are not being implemented in rental power plant case.

A three-member bench headed by the Chief Justice resumed the hearing of the case pertaining to the implementation of its 2012 verdict over the Rental Power Plants (RPP)

It may be mentioned that Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry had ordered that all those accused of graft in power generation projects be arrested and for the chairman of the NAB to report to the court.

The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) officials including the chairman responded over orders to arrest the prime minister and 15 other people on accusations of graft in 2010.

The Chief Justice during the hearing said that the court had ordered to submit the challan and arrest the accused. He said chairman National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Fasih Bokhari had also been issued a notice for contempt of court.

The chief justice remarked that NAB authorities needed to justify as to why the court’s directives had not been implemented. “Why could there be no challans against the accused and why had no arrests been made,” the chief justice remarked.

Prosecutor General NAB, K K Agha said the bureau had completed its investigations against those accused in the RPP case. The chief justice moreover said that the ruling in the RPP case was based on government documents, adding that the accused would have to be tried under NAB laws.

Agha said the Supreme Court was not a trial but a constitutional court, adding that it could not interfere in the investigation.

The chief justice directed to Agha to present case-to-case files before the court, adding that the bench had been hearing the case pertaining to the implementation of its ruling on the RPP case for the past six months.

Chief Justice Iftikhar directed NAB’s prosecutor general to present the list of all cases pertaining to the rental power plants. The chief justice moreover questioned as to what progress had the NAB made on implementing the court’s ruling of March 30, 2012.

He said some people named in this case considered themselves above the laws of the country and summoned an explanation from the authorities over their failure to arrest the accused. Also during the hearing, Bokhari said the impression that the NAB was not investigating the case was faulty.

He added that investigating such cases required longer, adding that it was not true that NAB officials were not doing their job. Bokhari moreover declared invalid two references that had been prepared in the RPP case.

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