ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) will file a review petition in the Supreme Court in the Hudaibiya Paper Mills case as well as a petition seeking the court’s direction to the government for the appointment of new prosecutor general in the anti-graft body.
A review petition in the Hudaibiya Paper Mills case as well as a petition seeking court direction to the federal government for appointment of prosecutor general will be filed next week. A three-member bench of the apex court headed by Justice Mushir Alam dismissed the appeal of NAB on December 15, seeking to set aside the judgment of the Lahore High Court (LHC) delivered in 2014, quashing a reference against the Sharif family in Hudaibiya Paper Mills case.
As per Article 188 of the constitution read with Order XXVI of the Supreme Court Rules, 1980, a review petition needs to be filed within 30 days from the date of judgment or order of the court. It was learnt that earlier, the NAB was waiting for detailed reasons of the apex court in its appeal, dismissed on December 15 and then to file a review petition but after the anti-graft body was guided that as it had already faced dismissal for filing its appeal against the LHC judgment quite late, hence it should not wait for the detailed reasons of the court and file the review petition at the earliest.
