ISLAMABAD – The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday has acquitted PrimeMinister’s Adviser on Parliamentary Affairs Babar Awan and Justice (rtd)Riaz Kiani in the Nandipur power plant corruption reference.
A two-judge bench, headed by Chief Justice Athar Minallah, dismissed theNational Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) appeals challenging anaccountability court’s June 25, 2019 verdict of acquitting them in the case.
The bench set aside the trial court’s verdict that dismissed an acquittalplea of former law secretary Masood Chishti, who is named as accused in thecase, and exonerated him from all charges.
Earlier on June 25, 2019, the then accountability judge Muhammad ArshadMalik had acquitted Babar Awan and Kiani while dismissed acquittal pleas offormer prime minister Raja Pervez Ashraf and other accused in the case.
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Awan and others were indicted in the case in March 2019. The chargesagainst them included “causing delay in according approval to the project”,which caused losses worth billions of rupees to the national exchequer. Allof the accused had pleaded not guilty.
