The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday ordered accused former I.G. Sindh Ghulam Hyder Jamali among others to appear before the court on Nov 18 for bail petitions in police funds corruption case.
A bench of the high court headed by Chief Justice Ahmed Ali M. Shaikh heard bail petitions of ex-police chief and other accused.
The chief justice expressed his resentment over the absence of Jamali’s counsel Farooq H. Naek. “The accused are now enjoying interim bails for long time,” the top judge remarked.
“The lawyers and the accused should appear in court and present their arguments, otherwise the order of their interim bails will be taken back,” Justice Shaikh said. “Farooq Naek could not appear in the court, as he has been busy in Islamabad,” a junior lawyer earlier informed the court.
The high court bench granted two days to the accused and their counsels to appear in the case hearing on Nov 18, and argue over the bail petitions, otherwise the court will retract their bail orders.
An accountability reference was filed against former I.G. Sindh Ghulam Haider Jamali and co-accused in 2018 over misappropriation in the police department funds.
It is pertinent to mention that n accountability court in September last year directed the investigating officer to supply copies of the documentary evidence to the suspects, including ex-IGP Jamali and five other police officers, in a corruption case.
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) filed a fresh reference, nominating over 15 police officers — including former provincial police officer Ghulam Haider Jamali, former assistant IG (finance) Syed Fida Hussain Shah, AIG (logistics) Tanveer Ahmed Tahir, former AIG (logistics) Faisal Bashir Memon and others — for alleged corruption in the funds of the Sindh police.
Former IGP Jamali, former AIG Memon and three others, who are on bail, appeared before the court. Two detained police officers Fida Hussain and Tanvir Ahmed were produced from prison.
