ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Thursday issued notices to Opposition Leader in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif and former principal secretary to the prime minister Fawad Hassan Fawad on appeals of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) seeking cancellation of their bails.
A three-member bench of the apex court, headed by Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed, admitted for hearing the bureau’s appeals challenging the bail granted to Shehbaz in the Ashiana housing society scam and Ramzan Sugar Mills’ cases, while Fawad Hassan Fawad’s bail in the Ashiana housing society scam.
NAB’s lawyer Naeem Bukhari contended before the court that the Lahore High Court (LHC) granted bail to the accused in violation of the principles laid down by the top court.
Justice Ijazul Ahsan, a member of the bench, remarked the high court rejected NAB’s charges against the accused in its ruling on their bail petitions and held that the contracts in the Ashiana Housing Scheme were awarded on merit.
Bukhari said the high court erred in taking the true facts into consideration and alleged Shehbaz was the mastermind of the Ashiana scandal.
The hearing was adjourned till May 2
The anti-corruption watchdog had approached the apex court challenging the bail granted to Shehbaz in the Ashiana housing society scam and Ramzan Sugar Mills’ cases, while Fawad Hassan Fawad’s bail in the Ashiana housing society scam.
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The NAB petitions stated that the Lahore High Court (LHC) has not reviewed the facts and regulations in the Ashiana Iqbal housing scam case into right aspects.
The top court had already defined standard for the provision of bail in NAB cases, adding that the high court’s verdict went contrary with the outlined standards set up by the judiciary.
Shehbaz Sharif and Fawad Hassan Fawad are key accused in the case. Bail to the persons must be suspended after nullifying the LHC’s verdict, the petition pleaded to the court.
On February 14, the Lahore High Court had approved the bail plea of Shehbaz Sharif, ordering his release.
A two-judge bench comprising Justice Malik Shahzad and Justice Mirza Waqas had given the verdict while hearing the bail petitions.
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