Daily Times

KARACHI: Sindh High Court on Friday sought comments from the National Accountability Bureau’s chairman and others on a petition by Sindh’s chief secretary seeking quashment of an investigation into illegal allotment and regularization of land against him.

Headed by Justice Hassan Azhar Rizvi, a division bench directed the NAB authorities to file their response to the petition filed by Muhammad Siddique Memon before October 25.

Advocate Khalid Jawed Khan, who represented the petitioner, submitted that his client was summoned by NAB for interrogation in connection with alleged illegal allotment and regularization of six acres of land in the city’s Scheme 33 in 1992.

He said Memon had not allotted the land individually but he was a member of a land committee that allotted the land. The counsel told the judges that the land in question had been surrendered to the government.

Since the land was in the government’s possession and no damage was caused to the national exchequer, yet the NAB was proceeding with the matter, he added.

He said that the bureau had converted the inquiry into investigation. The petitioner, therefore, pleaded the court to order quashment of the investigation against him.