Staff Reporter
Lahore
The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday declared the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) joint investigation team formed to probe the multi-billion-rupee sugar scam ‘null and void’. This grants a key relief to sugar mills owned by the Sharif family, PTI leader Jahangir Khan Tareen and others.
A two-member bench comprising Justice Shahid Karim and Justice Muhammad Sajid Mehmood Sethi heard a set of petitions filed by sugar mill owners, including the Sharif family and Tareen, in which they had challenged an FIA inquiry and its subsequent report regarding cartelisation and other illegal practices in the sugar industry. The petitioners had maintained that the FIA did not have jurisdiction to constitute a JIT to probe the matter.
