Lahore High Court (LHC) here on Friday directed the federal law secretary to submit detailed report till December 14 about an alleged bogus cheque of Rs 30 million which federal law minister Babar Awan had presented to District Bar Hafizabad.
Khalid Tehami President District Bar Hafizabad moved this petition in which his counsel Mushtaq Ahmed Mohal submitted that law minister Babar Awan gave a cheque of Rs 30 million to the bar in May 2010 however when the bar tried to get it cashed it was found to be bogus.
Counsel said after the visit of Babar Awan to the bar he being president of the bar had a meeting with Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad chaudhry, which annoyed law minister, and thus the payment was stopped. He said that this act of the law minister indicated that he had been giving heavy grants to district bars all over Punjab to win sympathies of the lawyers for his government to use them against judiciary.
He therefore prayed to the court to initiate proceedings against the law minister for giving a bogus cheque and cheating the bar. A deputy attorney general on behalf of the ministry had also filed an application claiming that the bar office-bearers had no jurisdiction to agitate the matter before court without taking will of bar members.
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