The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Wednesday challenged the bail granted to former principal secretary to the deposed prime minister, Fawad Hassan Fawad in assets case.
On January 21, the Lahore High Court (LHC) had granted bail to Fawad Hassan Fawad in the assets case. The court had ordered Fawad to submit Rs. 10 million surety bond in court for his bail. The NAB in its plea stated that the LHC had passed judgment in the case by neglecting the facts, the properties under name of accused and his relatives are expensive as compared to his known sources of income.
The SC has been pleaded to nullify the LHC’s judgment. In his bail petition to the court Fawad had said, “I have no personal home except the government residence.” “I am imprisoned in jail for last one-and-half year without any crime,” he said. “My health has deteriorated and medical treatment is not possible in jail,” he hadpleaded and sought the court order for his release on bail from the assets case.
The former principal secretary to ex-PM Nawaz Sharif was granted bail by the Lahore High Court on February 15 along with former chief minister Shehbaz Sharif in the Ashiana-e-Iqbal Housing Scheme case.
Meanwhile, an accountability court in Islamabad on Wednesday rejected the acquittal pleas of former prime minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf and other suspects in the Nandipur reference. Accountability Court Judge Azam Khan conducted the hearing and turned down the petitions of the erstwhile premier, Shumaila Mehmood, Riaz Kiyani and Masood Chishti under the National Accountability (Amendment) Ordinance.
The accountability court ordered to continue the trial while remarking that the accused do not deserve to get any relief under the NAB (Amendment) Ordinance. The NAB had also opposed to approve the acquittal pleas of the suspects.
