Cabinet members do not have constitutional immunity under Article 248: SC

ISLAMABAD, May 27 (PTI): Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial on Friday observed that cabinet members have no constitutional immunity under Article 248 of the Constitution, therefore, criminal cases against them should proceed.
The chief justice is heading a five-member bench after he took the suo motu notice over the alleged political interference in the working of prosecution and investigation in graft cases against the highest officeholders, especially PM Shehbaz Sharif and Punjab CM Hamza Shehbaz.
The bench also summoned DG FIA and the Director Law Usman Gondal in a matter related to the transfer of a prosecutor in the money laundering case against Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.