A three-member bench of the Supreme Court, here on Thursday, directed Director General of National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Rana Zahid to take to task the responsible of the scam of Qasar-e-Zauk's 12kanal land.
Earlier, the court was informed that former Attorney General of Pakistan, Malik Muhammad Qayyum, former Inspector General of Punjab, Azhar Hasan Nadeem, uncle of former LHC judge Sheikh Rasheed, Senator Gulzar Ahmed Khan and his sons Senator Waqar Ahmed Khan, Senator Ammar Ahmed Khan, former Minister Iqbal Tikka and his relative DSP Mukhtar Tikka were involved in the land scam and transferred the land in their names by kidnapping the owner and his son.
Appearing before the court, Sheikh Ayub submitted that a pre-bargain of rupees 600 million took place between him and the investors in the presence of Malik Qayyum, the then attorney general of Pakistan, senators and the former IG who were also the investors in the property.
Ayub said that Malik Qayyum invested Rs 30 million, which he returned to him but with their malafide intentions they managed to make a NAB reference against him. He further said that a retired brigadier, an ally of these 'big guns', had taken possession of his house at Niculson Road, Lahore. He addd that the property was worth Rs 1.2 billion but Malik Qayyum and others sold it in Rs 600 million.
He said that he never agitated the matter at any forum and tried to resolve the matter amicably, despite feeling the insecurity for him and his three daughters. He said they managed to arrest his only son. The bench therefore directed DG NAB to record statement of Sheikh Ayub and proceed against all the accused purely in accordance with the law. The court, however, did not issued decision on the bail application of Mohsin Ayub and adjourned it, and would now hear the matter in Islamabad on Friday (today), the last day of the SC bench in Lahore.
The bench, also comprising Justice Jawad S Khwaja and Justice Khalil-ur-Rehman Ramday, had taken cognisance of the matter of scam in the bail application of Ayub after his counsel Malik Amjad Parvaiz informed that big guns are involved in the matter.
He said his client entertained investments of the people but was allegedly trapped by the influential who abducted him to take him first to the residence of Iqbal Tikka in Johar Town and then to Faisalabad. They took into possession the power of attorney in respect of the investors and got signed some papers in their favour there during this course, he alleged. The NAB Court had ordered freezing of the property and a stay about its transfer was also passed but the NAB, despite all that, sold and transferred the same to Senator Ammar.