PHC grants bail to former K-P apportion Ziaullah Afridi
PESHAWAR: After remaining behind bars for about 16 months over crime charges, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s (K-P) earlier provincial apportion for mines and minerals Ziaullah Afridi was postulated bail by a Peshawar High Court on Tuesday.
Afridi was arrested on Jul 9, 2015 for misappropriation of billions of rupees by bootleg mining. The K-P Ehtesab Commission (KPEC) purebred dual other cases opposite him for bootleg mining in Charsadda and Abbottabad. The cases purported that a apportion was concerned in bootleg mining in Nowshera district and creation wrong appointments and transfers in a dialect during his tenure.
The apportion was postulated bail opposite dual collateral holds value Rs1 million any on drift that all co-accused in a box were postulated bail, including DG Mines and Minerals Department Dr Liaquat Ali.
Ziaullah’s box sent to another bench
Dr Ali and Khalid Yousaf were postulated bail in Chromite Tangi Mines case; Mir Zaman in appointment box and Khan Pervaiz in bootleg mining case.
Afridi’s warn Shumail Ahmad Butt argued before a dais headed by Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth that a postulant was in jail for a final 16 months nonetheless KPEC unsuccessful to record a anxiety opposite him. “Non-filing of a anxiety means a conference has not begun,” Butt contended.
The warn argued that anxiety Tangi Chromites in Charsadda district of K-P box was also not filed. He forked out check in producing record before a court, observant a check was not on partial of a petitioner. “Almost all adjournments were requested by a charge while sustenance of a record and replies were also a responsibility,” he argued.
The warn contended that after a 2nd Amendment in KPEC Act 2014, underneath a Section 42 a chairman charged for committing mixed offences should be prosecuted in one trial.
PHC urged to send Ziaullah’s box to tip bench
The dais after conference a arguments postulated bail to a former provincial apportion by a brief order, and systematic him to contention dual collateral holds of Rs1 million each.
Afridi was postulated bail by a PHC on Aug 24, 2015 though KPEC objected there were mixed cases tentative before a conference courts therefore he could not be released. The elect charged him for regulating his position to change members of a mining cabinet in a renovation and assignment of chromites mines in Tangi tehsil of Charsadda district to Jalal Khattak, an purported relations of CM Pervez Khattak.
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