Why does NAB have unlimited power to file cases against anyone, asks SC’s Justice Mandokhail

The Supreme Court’s Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhail on Friday asked why the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had “unlimited power” to file cases against anyone as the court dismissed the watchdog’s appeal against the bail of Ahad Cheema, now an adviser to the interim prime minister.

During the proceedings, the NAB’s prosecutor, who appeared on behalf of the watchdog’s Prosecutor General Sharif Janjua, withdrew the petition against Cheema, citing an inability to develop a case against him. The case was then dismissed.

Cheema was the first high-profile arrest in Punjab during NAB’s crackdown against corruption seemingly targeted against leaders of the PML-N and those close to it before the general elections of 2018. The bureau had arrested him on February 21, 2018, when he appeared before its investigation team in an inquiry into the Ashiana-i-Iqbal Housing Scheme.

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