Fawad Ahmed vs National Accountability Bureau S — 2024 MLD 1207 ISLAMABAD

Case information

Citation: 2024 MLD 1207 ISLAMABAD
Court: Islamabad High Court
Year: 2024
Reporter: MLD
Parties: Fawad Ahmed vs National Accountability Bureau S
Subject matter: Criminal
Provisions referred to: S. 497---N; S. 4; National Accountability Ordinance (XVIII of 1999); National Accountability Ordinance

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Judgment text as reported

Fawad Ahmed VS National Accountability Bureau S.497---National Accountability Ordinance (XVIII of 1999), Ss. 4 (2)(b), 9 (a) & (b) [as amended by National Accountability (Second Amendment) Act (XVI of 2022)]---Corruption and corrupt practices---Bail, grant of---Completion of codal formalities---Oral evidence---Petitioner was arrested for exerting his influence for approval of a dual carriageway---Project was approved by CDWP and ECNEC, after completion of all legal and codal formalities, and the contract was awarded to M/s Frontier Works Organization---In the light of S.4(2)(b) of National Accountability Ordinance, 1999, matter of petitioner did not fall within the ambit of National Accountability Bureau---There was no other evidence available against petitioner except statements of two witnesses---Bail is not to be withheld as a punishment---There is no legal or moral compulsion to keep people in jail merely on the allegation that they have committed offences punishable with death or transportation, unless reasonable grounds exist to disclose their complicity---Ultimate conviction and incarceration of a guilty person can repair the wrong caused by a mistaken relief of bail after arrest granted to him but no satisfactory reparation can be offered to an innocent man for his unjustified incarceration at any stage of the case albeit his acquittal in the long run---Bail was allowed, in circumstances.

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