Land subsidy case: Former arch secretary postulated pre-arrest bail
KARACHI: While fluctuating pre-arrest bail postulated to a former provincial arch secretary Muhammad Siddique Memon in a box relating to a purported bootleg regularisation and subsidy of land, a Sindh High Court (SHC) destined on Tuesday National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) review officer (IO) to record a news on swell of review by Jan 16, 2017.
The former tip proxy has been avoiding detain given he performed bail from a high justice in Aug final year.
Memon pronounced he had been served a call-up notice by a bureau, job him for doubt in propinquity to land in Karachi’s Scheme 33. He claimed that conjunction had he allotted such land nor had he regularised it. “Therefore, a notice from NAB is mala fide and interfering in a well-spoken functioning of a Sindh government,” he had argued in a bail plea.
He confirmed that NAB’s call-up notice is ‘illegal’ and ‘unconstitutional’ given he has no purpose in a elect of a purported offence. Therefore, Memon pleaded a justice extend him bail before detain to capacitate him to seem before a NAB for questioning.
Previously, a SHC had postulated him halt pre-arrest bail for a sum of Rs500,000 surety.
Filing an halt swell news on Tuesday, a IO pronounced call-up notices were released many times, while dual reminders were also sent to a applicable persons. “So distant 6 statements have been available and a record is perceived from 3 witnesses,” a news stated. The IO pronounced a record from opposite applicable offices is still awaited. The officer positive he will finish investigations within a stipulated duration and record report.
Therefore, a justice destined him to record a swell news by Jan 16.
Published in The Express Tribune, Dec 14th, 2016.
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