ISLAMABAD A three-member bench of Supreme Court headed by CJP Justice SaqibNisar and comprising Justice Umar Ata Bandial and Justice Ijazul, heard thecase regarding the SAI passengers in China.
“I am placing your name on the ECL. You can’t go abroad before paying thefine,” the chief justice told SAI Chairman Ehsan Sehbai.
On July 29, the SAI flight to Guangzhou was cancelled after the CivilAviation Authority (CAA) had suspended the airline’s flight operations,except Haj flights, because of non-payment of its dues of over Rs1.5billion. Over 300 passengers were left stranded at the Chinese airport.Later, some passengers were refunded their tickets, while some others weretransferred to hotels and provided food, etc.
The remaining 214 passengers of the airline had remained stranded in Chinafor almost nine days, returned on Monday after Chief Justice Nisar orderedimmediate repatriation of the passengers.
The CAA had given special permission to the SAI to send a plane to bringback the passengers.