SC to hear corruption in Gilani, Raja tenures' suo motu notice

Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry took suo motu notice of the alleged corruption in two mega projects, approved during the tenure of two former Prime Ministers, Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani and Raja Pervaiz Ashraf.
The chief justice took suo motu notice on a note of the Supreme Court Registrar, based on a press clipping of a newspaper, stating therein that the record of mega projects approved during the tenure of two ex-Prime Ministers is being tampered with, due to an apprehension that it might be called-in by the Supreme Court.

The newspaper report had claimed that efforts are being made by the bureaucracy to conceal the dubious summaries adding that despite a ban, Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani granted 450 illegal CNG station licenses in collusion with Tauqir Sadiq, brother in law of Jahangir Badar – engaging in billions of rupees worth of corruption during this process.

The newspaper also claimed that another scandal of mega corruption is likely to come to surface involving Raja Pervaiz Ashraf approving 200 illegal CNG stations licenses, despite the ban. OGRA instead of implementing the Policy had constituted a Technical Committee for its scrutiny and sought clarification from the Ministry of Petroleum. Therefore, the OGRA had not issued these 200 CNG stations licenses so far despite the fact that they are being pressurised for issuance of at least 69 licenses out of 200, which belong to relatives/favourites of ex-Parliamentarians.