Summary A two-member bench of the apex court headed by Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja heard the Ogra case.
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has expressed outrage on the non-arrest of former chairman of Oil and Gas Regulation Authority (Ogra) Tauqir Sadiq, Dunya News reported on Thursday.
A two-member bench of the apex court headed by Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja heard the Ogra case.
During the hearing, the NAB prosecutor told the bench that the UAE police arrested Sadiq but later released him.
Justice Jawwad remarked that the team, earlier sent to UAE didn’t even have arrest warrants against Sadiq. The bench questioned how Sadiq was able to travel after his passports were cancelled, adding that every agency was acting in complicity with the accused.
He said that NAB was not as “innocent” as it posed to be, adding that it appeared as though the NAB team had gone on a “camel to chase Sadiq.”
The bench said that NAB, police, Federal Investigation Authority (FIA) and the foreign ministry were responsible for helping Sadiq flee Pakistan.
Meanwhile, the NAB director said that the investigation against PM Raja was underway over the illegal appointment of Sadiq. He maintained that Interior Minister Rehman Malik and Pakistan People’s Party Senator Jahangir Badar were involved in the safe escape of Tauqir Sadiq, adding that the report to file reference against them was ready.
