The Supreme Court of Pakistan's bench hearing the Employees Old-age Benefit Institution (EOBI) scam case, on Monday, reissued notices to all the respondents in the case. The court also sought from the Defence Housing Authority (DHA) details of finances pertaining to the additional expenses incurred from its frozen accounts in relation to the alleged scam.
A three-member bench of the apex, headed by Justice Tasadduq Husain Jilani, heard the case pertaining to the scam. During the hearing, Director Legal Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) told the bench that there was no major progress in the case ever since the court ordered the investigation agency not to cause harassment to any of the owners of different companies and developers who sold their land to EOBI.
Meanwhile, counsel for DHA, Advocate Irfan Qadir, told the court that the housing authority needed additional funding for its day to day expenses. Also, EOBI submitted a separate application for selling of 18 of its real estate properties. The court again issued notices to the respondents and sought details of funds for DHA's additional expenditure from its frozen accounts while adjourning the hearing to the first week of December. Preliminary findings of a probe into the alleged scam by the suggests that the EOBI first purchased 321 kanals of land in the DHA Islamabad on January 19, 2012 for Rs 15.473 billion and then, on March 15, 2013, signed a second deal with the DHA to buy 23 commercial and 12 residential plots, 162 three-bedroom and 29 five-bedroom villas in Sector F, Phase-I DHA Rawalpindi.
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