Ag APPSHEIKHUPURA: The auction of an 88-kanal tract of land belonging to former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was set into motion in Sheikhupura on Thursday, a day after the Islamabad High Court .
IHC dismisses pleas against auctioning Nawaz’s property
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May 20, 2021
ISLAMABAD: A division bench of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday dismissed the petitions seeking to stop the auction of a property owned by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, declaring them as non-maintainable.
The bench said the IHC could not hear the case under section 199 when the petitioners had other forums for relief, adding the litigants should have filed the application in the trial court for stopping the auction.
The bench comprising Justice Aamir Farooq and Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri announced the decision which was earlier reserved after hearing arguments from the petitioners’ counsel against the property auction in Toshakhana reference.
IHC reserves decision on maintainability of petitions against auction of Nawaz Sharif s property Wed 19th May 2021 | 05:10 PM
ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 19th May, 2021 ) :A division bench of Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday reserved its judgment on maintainability of petitions challenging auction of former prime ministerNawaz Sharif s property in toshakhana corruption reference.
A division bench comprising Justice Aamir Farooq and Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri took up the cases against the confiscation and auction of Nawaz Sharif s property under the decision of an accountability court. The three separate petitions were filed by Mian Iqbal Barkat, Aslam Aziz and Muhammad Ashraf Malik through their counsel Qazi Misbah to IHC.