SC fixes NAB plea against Shehbaz, Fawad's bail for hearing
The court has issued notices to Shehbaz and Fawad to appear on May 2.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya Nes) – Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday has approved National Accountability Bureau (NAB) plea against bail of Opposition Leader in National Assembly (NA) Shehbaz Sharif and former senior bureaucrat Fawad Hasan Fawad for hearing.
According to details, the court has issued notices to Shehbaz and Fawad to appear on May 2. We want to hear all the cases at the same time, remarked Justice Azmat Saeed Sheikh.
Earlier on February 15, LHC had ordered to release Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) President Shehbaz Sharif after approving his bail plea.
The bail was granted against two surety bonds worth one million each. Shehbaz Sharif had filed bail petition in Ramzan Sugar Mills and Ashiana Housing Scheme cases.
The court said in its remarks that the NAB failed to prove the allegations leveled against the PMLN president. Shehbaz Sharif never remained the chief executive of Ramzan Sugar Mills, LHC said.
Furthermore, Fawad Hasan Fawad’s bail plea was also approved by the LHC in the Ashiana Housing Scheme case but rejected in the assets beyond income case. Fawad Hasan Fawad has been accused of owing ten-story plaza in Rawalpindi and other properties.
The NAB prosecutor told the court that Fawad Hasan Fawad’s assets were not increased from 1987 to 1995, and he took loans worth Rs80 million from 2014 to 2016.
NAB had arrested Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif in the Ashiana-e-Iqbal Housing Scheme scam on October 5. The former chief minister was charged with awarding illegal contracts to his favorite firm.
He was apprehended during his appearance before NAB in Saaf Pani Company scam. Sources told that three files were tabled before him. The bureau quizzed Sharif regarding a tender awarded to a private consultancy company for a survey of the Saaf Pani company.
The PML-N president had failed to satisfy the probing team of the bureau during the investigation and was ultimately arrested.
The anti-graft watchdog had claimed that the company did not conduct any kind of survey but nevertheless was provided a lucrative sum of Rs 1.5 billion.
Ex-prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s principal secretary Fawad Hassan Fawad became an approver in the case. Fawad Hassan Fawad, in his statement before NAB, had claimed that he had awarded a contract to a “favourite firm” in the Rs14 billion Ashiana Housing project at the behest of Shahbaz Sharif.
