Dr Asim’s bail plea: SHC appoints arbitrate judge
Dr Asim Hussain. PHOTO: EXPRESS
KARACHI: Justice Aftab Ahmed Gorar of a Sindh High Court (SHC) was allocated on Friday as a arbitrate decider to confirm on a bail applications of former petroleum apportion Dr Asim Hussain in crime cases.
Judicial sources told The Express Tribune that SHC Chief Justice Sajjad Ali Shah allocated Justice Gorar to inspect a separate visualisation and confirm a matter.
Dr Asim faces dual crime cases filed by a National Accountability Bureau (NAB) for allegedly depriving a open exchequer of Rs462 million by misusing his authority.
A two-judge bench, comprising Justice Muhammad Farooq Shah and Muhammad Karim Khan Agha, had, on Feb 2, given a separate visualisation in a matter.
Split visualisation given in Dr Asim’s bail plea
Justice Agha postulated bail to Dr Asim theme to furnishing a collateral of Rs2.5 million in any box and a bond of a same volume to a compensation of a justice nazir. Also directing a applicant to deposition his strange pass with a nazir, a decider serve destined a interior method not to emanate him a uninformed pass until serve orders and to place his name on a Exit Control List.
Justice Agha had celebrated that permitting someone to sojourn cramped for years, notwithstanding a fact that capture was dangerous to his life as correct and adequate diagnosis was not accessible in jail, could lead him to being physically or mentally marred permanently.
SHC questions maintainability of defence opposite Dr Asim’s detention
However, Justice Shah deserted a bail applications, watching that a charge indeed had succeeded in substantiating a box of exclusion of a bail defence underneath supplies of a National Accountability Ordinance, 1999, and within ambits of Section 497(i) of a Code of Criminal Procedure. “The applicant [was] supposing glorious diagnosis and hospitalisation on [the] recommendation of [the] medical board.”
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