Secretary General to the President, Salman Farooqui has taken strong exception to the allegations levelled against him, as contained in the list of NRO beneficiaries made public on Saturday and urged the Law Ministry to take steps to undo the damage done to some innocent victims of political victimisation like him.
According to a statement issued here on Sunday, the Secretary General to the President said that he was falsely implicated in textile quota case long after the original FIR was filed in early 1997 against others, only to politically victimise him.
Even at that time he was not accused of forgery or fraud or illegal allotment of textile quota. It is a matter of deep concern and regret that the record of the case was not examined and released to the media on unsubstantiated list containing false allegations that were not levelled even at that time, the statement said.
According to statement, Salman Farooqui said that he was dismissed from service on the basis of the same concocted material but the Supreme Court, and then headed by Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, declared his dismissal as against law and principles of natural justice. He said that the Supreme Court even rejected the revision application filed by the government only to delay his reinstatement and as a result the then government had no choice but to reinstate him.
Referring to the mention of his name relating to the award of monopoly license in 1994 to ARY Gold for the import of gold, he said that originally he was not among the accused but was included as one of the accused in a supplementary reference that was filed much later.
"He (Farooqui) had nothing to do with the said license as he was posted as Secretary Commerce in end of 1995. He had challenged action against him intended to harass and de fame him", the statement mentioned.
"Farooqui said that before publishing the list of these concocted cases and frivolous charges, the allegations should have been carefully reviewed by the competent forums," the statement said.
It was painful that the innocents continued to be maligned even after 12 years of media trial and no effort was being made to separate them. In not doing so, those responsible were perhaps inadvertently helping the guilty at the cost of the innocent, Farooqui lamented.
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