ISLAMABAD – The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on Tuesday challenged thePeshawar High Court’s (PHC) verdict directing FIA to probe the Bus RapidTransit (BRT) project of Peshawar.
KP chief secretary, secretary local government & rural development andsecretary transport department jointly filed an appeal in the apex courtunder Article 185(3) of the Constitution against Fazli Karim Khan, PeshawarDevelopment Authority (PDA) DG and BRT Project Director & others.
In their appeal, the petitioners stated that the respondent No 1 (FazliKarim Khan) had filed a writ petition in the PHC wherein he challenged theconstruction of Station 31 of the ongoing BRT project on the grounds thatit was being built right in front of his house, and, therefore, the valueof his property had gone down.
They added that the PHC, while accepting the writ petition, formulated 35points in the shape of questions and directed the Federal InvestigationAgency (FIA) for investigation and inquiry.
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The petitioners submitted that a similar writ petition (4217/2017) wasfiled in the PHC in 2017, which was dismissed vide judgment and order,dated 07-12-2017, by the then chief justice of the High Court.
Astoundingly, CM No.847-P/2018 regarding some transfer matter was filed inthe already dismissed writ petition (4217/2017) wherein the PHC directedNAB to conduct investigation and inquiry into the BRT project videjudgment, dated 17-07-2018, which was impugned before the august court,wherein the Supreme Court granting leave to appeal suspended the impugnedjudgment of PHC by maintaining status quo.
