The Supreme Court on on Tuesday granted interim bail to former Inspector General of Sindh Police, Ghulam Haider Jamali, who is facing corruption charges. A three-member bench comprising Justice Manzoor Ahmad Malik, Justice Sardar Tariq Masood and Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah directed the accused Jamali to furnish Rs0.5 million surety bonds within five days.
The court also issued notices to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and adjourned the hearing until June 7. Sardar Latif Khan Khosa, senior counsel for Jamali, contended before the court that his client had no role in the illegal recruitment of police constables. To a query by Justice Manzoor Malik whether the constables appointed illegally were still serving, Khosa stated that some of them were still serving, whereas some of them were not regularized.
Earlier, on May 10, 2018, Accountability Court-III in Karachi had issued non-bailable warrant for the arrest of former IGP Sindh Ghulam Haider Jamali in a case relating to Rs 500 million corruption allegedly carried out through illegal appointments in the Sindh police. The Accountability Court had directed the investigation officer to arrest the former provincial police chief and produce him in the court, as he had escaped after dismissal of his pre-arrest bail application by the Sindh High Court (SHC). The court had fixed May 25, 2018 as next date of hearing.
The former IG along with the former SSP of Sindh Reserve Police (SRP) Hyderabad had escaped from the SHC premises after dismissal of their pre-arrest bail applications along with former DSP Mir Muhammad Dharejo and three former sub-inspectors, Ghulam Raza, Abdul Qadir and Raja Ishtiaq, who were arrested by the NAB.
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