Sindh High Court Summons FIA Chief Over Banking Records Inquiry

Sindh High Court summons FIA chief in pleas against notices for banking records of Cotton Exchange directors, tenants

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court has summoned the director general of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in petitions challenging the notices issued by the agency to commercial banks seeking banking records of current and former directors of the Karachi Cotton Exchange and others. A two-judge constitutional bench headed by Justice Adnan-ul-Karim Memon also restrained the FIA from taking any coercive action against the petitioners till April 16. The bench allowed the FIA to continue to procee...

By [email protected] (Ishaq Tanoli)