LHC postpones hearing of seven appeals by Sharif family

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LAHORE: A division bench of the Lahore High Court postponed for September 9 the hearing of seven identical appeals of the Sharif family against the National Accountability Bureau, after its Punjab director general ensured that property documents and other confiscated belongings of the appellants will be produced in the next hearing.

The bench ordered Director General Rana Zahid Mehmood to also present a cheque worth Rs 115 million, the amount that they had taken into possession from the Sharifs, in the name of the LHC deputy registrar (judicial).

The appellants told the court that the bureau had taken the amount from them through bank transactions and never returned it. The bench, on August 26, had directed NAB to submit the record relating to the land ownership and shares in different companies of the Sharif family that had been confiscated by NAB.

During earlier proceedings, NAB counsel Talib Rizvi had informed that the bureau had failed to trace out documents pertaining to the Sharif family’s land ownership and shares in different companies confiscated by it.

The bench had said that it was alarming that NAB did not have the documents and deplored that the bureau could not produce the documents despite being provided ample time for the task. The bench had directed the Sharifs’ counsel, Shahid Hamid, to prepare a list of all documents of the Sharif family and submit it to the court in the next hearing.