Before jumping to conclusions on Justice Siddiqui’s (who is real Cousin of Writer Irfan Siddiqui who is an Advisor for Nawaz Sharif )sudden outburst everyone is advised to keep in mind that a Reference against Justice Siddiqui is pending in Supreme Judicial Council over alleged misuse of authority. The outburst against Army-Judiciary is meant to make any order against him controversial and become a martyr. Former director of the Capital Development Authority (CDA), Muhammad Anwar Gopang, filed a reference against Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui. The contents of reference are as follows:
i) On the instructions of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, the judge was allotted House No 91-H in Sector F/6-3 of Islamabad. After sometime, the judge used his connections to find a better place to live, and got allotted House No 1-A, in Sector F/7-3. However, the honorable judge was not satisfied even with that house.
ii) His private secretary wrote a letter to the department concerned demanding change of residence for the third time. Eventually, he got House No 2-A in Sector F/7-4, which was on the pool of the PWD.
iii) The judge shifted his residence thrice in search for a ‘better’ abode. He then compelled the CDA to renovate his existing residence despite the fact that the house was the property of the Public Works Department (PWD) and PWD was responsible for its renovation. CDA spent Rs 12.1 million to renovate the house. Engineering Wing of the CDA had initially estimated a cost of Rs 8 million for the renovation work. However, it swelled to more than Rs 12 million in the end.
iv) The judge pressurized the CDA to construct a special cage for his pigeons on the rooftop of his official residence. The amount spent to construct the cage was, however, not shown in the final bills.
v) On the insistence of Justice Siddiqui, the renovation work was carried out by the CDA, which cost the national exchequer more than Rs 12 million.
vi) The documentary evidence showed that to conceal the total cost of renovation, the officers of CDA revised the tenders thrice. Although the job was awarded to three different firms but actually the work was completed by one contractor.
vii) The CDA also constructed the cage for Justice Siddiqui’s pigeons on the rooftop, but that amount was not shown in the bills.
viii) Justice Siddiqui had very close terms with CDA Director Manzoor Hussain Shah and had ordered the CDA to allot a plot to him. The CDA allotted Plot No 1014 in Sector 1-8/4 to Shah, but he refused to accept it and demanded either Plot No 395 or 396 in Sector I/8-2 be allotted to him. He resubmitted the application in the court and Justice Siddiqui issued the order to allot Plot No 396 to the CDA director. The estimated market value of the first plot was Rs 10 million whereas the plot which the officer got on his choice was worth Rs 50 million.
ix) Another assistant director of CDA, Shahid Singha, who was said to be a close friend of Justice Siddqui for many years, also took undue advantage of his relations.The son of Shahid Singha was a temporary employee on a project. On the application of Singha, Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui first issued stay order and then issued the orders to confirm the services of Singha’s son Nabeel Singha in (BPS-16) despite objections raised by the CDA.
x) In the same way, Shahid Singha’s daughter-in-law was recruited as research associate in Islamabad High Court on a monthly salary of Rs 80,000 on the orders of Justice Siddiqui. He later transferred her to his own office.
xi) According to the reference, Shahid Singha fell ill and admitted to a private hospital. On the orders of Justice Siddiqui, the CDA had to pay for his medical treatment that cost the authority Rs 377,986.
xii) Moreover on the intervention of Justice Siddiqui, the CDA allotted him a house from its pool and gave a Suzuki Cultus car to him.
Islamabad High Court’s Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui, a former president of the Rawalpindi Bar who openly celebrated Gov Salman Taseer’s murder in 2011, revoked Pervez Musharraf’s bail that was properly granted earlier by Justice Mushir Alam, a’ Sindh High Court judge in Karachi.
He is a Molvi Abdul Aziz Supporter
As an attorney in 2007, Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui represented and helped bail out Maulana Abdul Aziz who was charged in multiple cases in connection with the Lal Masjid standoff.
His PML-N Connection
Another credit of Justice Shoukat Saddiqui is that he is
real brother of Irfan Siddiqui media advisor of P.M.
On the instructions of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Justice Shaukat Siddiqui was allotted House No 91-H in Sector F/6-3 of Islamabad. After sometime, the judge used his connections to find a better place to live, and got allotted House No 1-A, in Sector F/7-3. However, the honorable judge was not satisfied even with that house and his private secretary wrote a letter to the department concerned demanding change of residence for the third time. Eventually, he got House No 2-A in Sector F/7-4.
The house needed repair and renovation. On the insistence of Justice Siddiqui, the renovation work was carried out by the CDA, which cost the national exchequer more than Rs 12 million:
Rs 372,000/- were spent on the paint work of the house.
Electrical job was completed with the cost of 1.7 million.
Revamping of eight bathrooms cost Rs 0.9 million whereas the decoration of kitchen took Rs 163,000/-.
Two main gates of the house were changed with the cost of Rs 126,000/-.
In addition to this, the old windows of the house were replaced with aluminum windows and Rs 770,000/- were spent on this count.
A sum of Rs 275,000/- was spent on the driveway of the house.
In the parking porch, cement tiles were fixed with a sum of Rs 190,000/-.
The store room of the house was merged into kitchen on which Rs 250,000/- were spent.
Rs 555,000/- were utilized on the tiles that were fixed on the roof of the house.
The six doors of the house were covered with metal net on which Rs 226,000/- were spent.
Height of the walls his house was increased and security wire was installed on it with a total cost of Rs 437,000/-.
False ceiling and fixing of marble in drawing room was completed with the total cost of Rs 111,000/-.
His Final Launch against Dharna 2.0
The IHC bench was hearing four petitions filed for restraining the PTI from holding a sit-in on November 2nd 2016. Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui while hearing the petitions remarked that “it appears from Imran Khan’s statements that he wanted to paralyze the government and Nov 2 sit-in is not just a protest rally”.
He has also summoned
Imran Khan on 31 October 2016 to explain his intentions to IHC.
This clearly shows that PML N has launched this judge to rescue them from Dharna 2.0.
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