LAHORE – Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar on Sunday admonished a top officer of Punjab Highway Patrol for trying to seek undue favour from his family members.
“How dare you think that I would bestow undue favours upon you if you request one of my family members for leniency? I am in state of Jihad and you are seeking undue favours?” the CJP questioned DIG Ghulam Mehmood Dogar while hearing a custody case in Supreme Court’s Lahore registry.
The top judge then summoned his son-in-law Khalid Rehman to appear before the court and record his statement.
“You are my son, but not inside the court premises. Tell me, who asked you to put forward such a request?” he asked his son-in-law when he appeared before the apex court.
Rehman told the court that DIG Dogar, who is currently fighting a custody case of his children against his ex-wife, asked him for such a favour.
“DIG Dogar wants the name of his former wife and children to stay on the Exit Control List (ECL),” the son-in-law informed the two-member bench.
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The police officer also presented an unconditional apology before the SC, but the CJP refused to accept it.
The top judge then ordered that further case proceedings will be held in his chambers.
Last year, DIG Dogar’s former wife Mirjam Aberras Lahdeaho had filed a petition in the Lahore High Court seeking recovery of her sons from Dogar’s custody.
In the petition, she stated that she was a citizen of Finland and Canadian national and married Dogar 31 years ago. The petitioner said she had three children with him, namely elder daughter Zara, and two sons, Ghulam Qasim Dogar and Ghulam Jafar Dogar.
She said both the parents of Dogar, his brother, and his sister were also Canadian nationals.
Dogar had asked Aberras to send the children to Pakistan to spend the holidays with him last year. She sent all three children home and then the DIG allegedly refused to let them fly back to Canada.
Mirjiam claimed the respondent initially used delaying tactics and flatly refused to send them back after a few months.
