DPO Pakpattan transfer: SC dispose off the case
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ISLAMABAD – The Supreme Court on Monday has disposed off the DPO Pakpattan transfer case.
SC accepted the written apologies submitted by Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar and others in the former Pakpattan DPO Rizwan Gondal transfer case
A bench headed by Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar was hearing a suo motu case pertaining to alleged transfer of the police officer due to political intervention. During the hearing, the court, earlier today, rejected the responses of the chief minister, former IG Punjab Kaleem Imam and others to an inquiry report claiming political intervention in the transfer.
The chief justice expressed anger over the reply submitted by the chief minister, Ahsan Gujjar, who had approached the CM for relocation of the police officer, and former IG Punjab Kaleem Imam on an inquiry report prepared by National Counter Terrorism Authority (Nacta) chief Maher Khaliq Dad Lak into the matter.
In his response submitted to the Supreme Court, the chief minister stated he had never misused his authority and that he believed in the supremacy of the law. It was further stated that the report of Nacta chief was based on assumptions and could not be relied on.
On October 3, an inquiry report was submitted, stating that Gondal was transferred on the basis of political intervention. It further added that orders for the transfer of the police officer in the middle of the night came from the chief minister’s office.
