Accountability court extends Saad Rafique's transit remand for five days
The NA session was postponed due to mini budget, says Saad Rafique.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Accountability court on Wednesday has extended transit remand of former Pakistan Railways minister Khawaja Saad Rafique for five days in the Paragon Housing Society scam case.
During the hearing, Justice Mohammad Bashir asked about the National Assembly session over which, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader said that it will be concluded on January 25 to 26.
He told that the federal government is going to announce mini budget on January 23 due to which the session was postponed.
On December 11, Saad Rafique and his brother Salman Rafique were detained by the accountability watchdog after the Lahore High Court (LHC) rejected their bail plea.
National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had launched an investigation into the alleged scam in November last year after a number of victims staged protests and held a press conference at the Lahore Press Club against what they termed housing society’s fraud.
The PML-N leader is facing a suo motu case in SC regarding ‘colossal’ losses faced by the railways during the last five years of the PML-N rule.
The NAB sources claimed that the new inquiry is initiated against the former Railways minister as there are allegations that hundreds of acres of Railways’ land in Lahore, Kasur, and Faisalabad were allotted on lease for 33 years illegally when the accused was Railways’ minister. Irregularities were found in the lease agreement, the sources added.
