Fact that provisions of Section 9(a)(v) read with Section 14(c) of the National Accountability Ordinance, 1999 (No.XVIII of 1999)

Owing to the fact that provisions of Section 9(a)(v) read with Section 14(c) of the National Accountability Ordinance, 1999 (No.XVIII of 1999) are prima facie attracted, it was for the petitioner to produce the requisite evidence and record to show the real ownership of the properties and legitimate sources and transactional money trails to show lawful movement of funds for acquisition of the same. Section 14 (c) of the National Accountability Ordinance, 1999 (No.XVIII of 1999) provides as under:-. 

“(c) In any trial of an offence punishable under clause (v) of sub-section (a) of section 9 of this Ordinance, the fact that the accused person or any other person on his behalf, is in possession, for which the  accused person cannot satisfactorily account, of assets or pecuniary resources disproportionate to his known source of income, or that such person has, at or about the time of the commission of the, offence with which he is charged, obtained an accretion to his pecuniary resources or property for which he cannot satisfactorily account the Court shall presume, unless the contrary is proved, that the accused person is guilty of the offence of corruption and corrupt practices and his conviction therefore shall not be invalid by reason only that it is based solely on such a presumption.”

Part Of Judgment
THE LAHORE HIGH COURT, MULTAN BENCH, MULTAN 
Writ Petition-Criminal Proceedings-N.A.B
5240-20
2020 LHC 1405