PTI moves SC against acquittal of Maryam, Shehbaz

• PTI has challenged absolution of Maryam in Avenfield case
• The plea said Maryam’s acquittal was illegal
• It said Shehbaz was also illegally given relief in the reference.

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) has approached the Supreme Court against acquittal of Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) Senior Vice President Maryam Nawaz and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in separate cases, Bol News reported on Tuesday.

The plea filed by the PTI has challenged absolution of Maryam Nawaz in Avenfield Apartment reference and Shehbaz Sharif in money laundering case. The PTI filed the simultaneous pleas in the suo moto case pertaining to influencing the institutes.

The plea said Maryam’s acquittal was illegal, so the court should declare it void. The PTI said it was job of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to filed appeal against the high court verdict of acquittal of Maryam Nawaz. “The accountability watchdog did not file the appeal deliberately. The Supreme Court itself has said that influential people in the government are manipulating the investigations and cases,” it added.

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Challenging acquittal of Shehbaz in the case of Federal Investigation Agency regarding money laundering, the PTI said the PML-N president was also illegally given relief in the reference. “His acquittal was also attained by influencing institutes after coming into power,” said the petition.

On February 26, National Assembly Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf has refused to accept the order of Lahore High Court regarding the restoration of PTI MNAs and said that the reinstated MNAs would not be allowed to enter or attend the session of lower house.

The NA sources had said that the speaker was of the view that the resignations of these PTI lawmakers had been accepted and the LHC has not restored them but only suspended the schedule of by-elections in these constituencies.

They had claimed that the court had not dismissed the NA speaker’s decision of acceptance of their resignations.