اسلام آباد ہائی کورٹ نے ایون فیلڈ اور العزیزیہ ریفرنس میں نوازشریف کی دونوں اپیلیں بوجہ غیر حاضری خارج کردیں۔

 عدالت نے اپیلیں خارج کرتے ہوئے کہا کہ میاں محمد نواز شریف کو ٹرائل کورٹ میں فیئر ٹرائل کا بھرپور موقع دیا گیا۔ جس کے بعد سزا کا فیصلہ ہوا۔

فیصلے میں کہا گیا ہے کہ نواز شریف ضمانت پر ہونے کے باوجود بیرونِ ملک چلے گئے اور اس عدالت میں پیش نہیں ہوئے۔

تاہم عدالت نے یہ بھی قرار دیا ھے کہ اگر میاں محمد نواز شریف خود گرفتاری دے دیتے ہیں یا گرفتار کر لیے جاتے ییں تو وہ اپنی اپیلوں کے میرٹ پر فیصلہ کے لیے عدالت کو درخواست گزار سکتے ہیں

1. CRIMINAL APPEAL NO.1 -2019

Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif

Vs. State through Chairman, National Accountability Bureau, Islamabad

2. CRIMINAL APPEAL NO.121-2018

Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif

Vs. State through Chairman, National Accountability Bureau, Islamabad

Article 10-A of the Constitution provides for the determination of civil rights and obligations or in any criminal charge against him a person shall be entitled to a fair trial and due process. In case reported as Hayat Bakhsh supra, the Hon‟ble Supreme Court observed that there is no bar on the Supreme Court to dispose of a criminal appeal on consideration that the accused person has abused the process of the Court. There is nothing in the Constitution or the Rules to compel the Court to decide on merits an appeal filed by an accused person who has chosen to be fugitive from justice and while remaining so decides to disobey or frustrate the orders, directions and process of the Court from which he seeks justice. Appellant was provided fair trial and now has absconded from justice at the time of hearing of appeal hence the referred Article of Constitution, is of no avail to him. Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif was provided a fair trial inasmuch as learned trial court provided him opportunity of hearing as well as cross-examining the prosecution witnesses and only after the proper trial, his conviction was recorded; he despite being on bail, proceeded abroad and did not appear before this Court despite on bail and without any justification or basis, remained absent on a number of dates of hearing hence this Court was left with no option but to follow the procedure as provided in Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 and declared him as fugitive from law.

In view of foregoing, since appellant is fugitive from law hence has lost his right of audience before this Court and we are left with no choice except to dismiss his appeal.

For the above reasons, instant appeal is dismissed. Appellant may file an application before this Court, as and when he surrenders or is captured by the authorities, for decision of the appeal on merits. Needless to observe that the said application, if and when is made, shall be decided in accordance with law.