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KP moves SC against FIA probe into Peshawar BRT
The Peshawar Development Authority (PDA) on Tuesday filed a petition in the Supreme Court, seeking dismissal of Peshawar High Court’s December 6 directives to the Federal Investigation Agency to complete its probe into the Peshawar Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) within 45 days, a private TV channel reported. The KP government submitted a request in the […]
The Peshawar Development Authority (PDA) on Tuesday filed a petition in the Supreme Court, seeking dismissal of Peshawar High Court’s December 6 directives to the Federal Investigation Agency to complete its probe into the Peshawar Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) within 45 days, a private TV channel reported.
The KP government submitted a request in the Supreme Court’s Peshawar registry while the PDA submitted another petition in the apex court, challenging the high court order.
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government spokesperson Ajmal Wazir defended the decision to go to the apex court regarding the probe, saying that the provincial administration will answer all questions regarding the Peshawar BRT once the project has been completed. “We are ready for an inquiry into the BRT, but the inquiry should be carried out once the project has been completed,” he said, after a meeting of the provincial cabinet in Peshawar earlier in the day. “The work on the project was halted due to elections, but has [since] resumed,” he added.
A bench of the Peshawar High Court, headed by Chief Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth, had earlier this month directed the FIA to complete the probe into the under-construction BRT project within 45 days. The bench had given the order while adjudicating a slew of petitions filed against the project by residents of the city. Two petitioners, including Fazal Karim Afridi and Adnan Afridi, had challenged the raising of different structures of the project adjacent to their houses in Hayatabad Township.
Another petitioner, advocate Isa Khan, had requested the court to order the construction of overhead bridges or under-passes for pedestrians at distances of not more than 100 meters.
In the order, the court had also asked the FIA to take action against the officers involved with the project before the expiry of the 45-day deadline.
Earlier this month, a five-member special inquiry team of the FIA, KP, had started its probe into alleged irregularities in the Peshawar BRT in line with the court’s directives.
