Lahore High Court on Monday released PML-N member and a close relative of Nawaz Sharif Sohail Zia Butt and suspended a 3-year term awarded to him by an accountability court. Hearing a case seeking Sohail Zias release, Justice Ijaz Chaudhry ordered Butts release on a surety bond of Rs3million on health grounds. On Sept 3, an accountability court sent Sohail Zia Butt to jail to undergo three years imprisonment awarded to him by an accountability court in absentia in 2001 under Section 31-A of the NAB Ordinance in a reference of Rs 2 million embezzlement.Zia was nabbed over the charges of defaulting on a Rs 70.2 million loan.
