The chief judge Aalia Neelum of the High Court of Lahore (LHC) canceled the order of a district court ordering the registration of a first information report (FIR) against the son of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Suleman Shehbaz, in a case of control of control.
The high court judged that the lower court had not correctly examined the facts of the case.
Suleman Shehbaz had challenged the order of July 10 rendered by the district judge, who asked the police to record a FIR against him to issue a rebounded check.
During the LHC procedure, Suleman’s lawyer argued that the District Court’s decision was not only contrary to the law, but was also adopted without an appropriate examination of factual history.
The respondent’s lawyer allegedly alleged that the Suleman company had bought 17 laptops and issued a check for 600,000 rupees in payment, which was then dishonored.
However, Suleman’s lawyer replied that no laptop was delivered to the company’s office. He also argued that the checks in question had been stolen by the company’s employees and wrongly handed over to the respondent. An FIR had already been recorded against these people, he added.
“The company has no connection with these checks,” said the lawyer.
The chief judge also interviewed the respondent’s legal team for specifying the date of the alleged laptop purchase. She noted that no purchase receipt was carried out either official stamp.
After hearing the arguments on both sides, the chief judge ruled in favor of the petitioner and canceled the order of the district court.
