Court sends Shehbaz Sharif to jail on judicial remand

Dunya News

Accountability court has sent Shehbaz Sharif to Kot Lakhpat Jail on 14-day judicial remand.

LAHORE (Dunya News) – An accountability court in Lahore has on Tuesday sent Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Shehbaz Sharif to the Kot Lakhpat Jail on 14-day judicial remand.

According to details, the court conducted hearing on the money laundering case against the PML-N president who maintained that he had already given all details to the National Accountability Bureau on October 26, 2018 and the questionnaire is old.

Shehbaz Sharif said the arguments of the anti-graft body’s investigation officer are contrary to facts to which the official replied that interrogations in 2018 were conducted of the Ashiana Housing Scheme and Ramzan Sugar Mills cases.

Let it be known that the court had extended physical remand of Shehbaz Sharif till October 20 during the previous hearing.

On the other hand, the Punjab Home Department has said the PML-N president will be treated like an ordinary inmate at the Kot Lakhpat Jail.

Shehbaz Sharif will be kept in barrack number 2 and will only be allotted separate room, bed, table lamp and other facilities after approval of Class B according to the Pakistan Prisons Rules, 1978.