Assets beyond means probe: LHC grants pre-arrest interim bail to Sana.

LAHORE -- The Lahore High Court on Wednesday allowed interim pre-arrest bail to PML-N Punjab president Rana Sanaullah Khan in an inquiry into alleged assets beyond means being conducted by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).

A two-judge bench comprising Justice Ali Baqar Najafi and Justice Tariq Saleem Sheikh granted bail to Rana Sana subject to two surety bonds worth Rs500,000 each and also sought a reply from the NAB by March 25.

Mr Khan, also a sitting MNA and former law minister, appeared before the bench along with his counsel Azam Nazir Tarar and Amjad Pervez.

To establish mala fide intention behind the impugned inquiry, the counsel stated that the petitioner had hardly reached home after getting bail in a 'fabricated' drug case when he started receiving call-up notices from the NAB asking him to appear before its combined investigation team (CIT) to explain his assets.

He said the petitioner appeared before the CIT whenever he was summoned and informed the investigators that all his assets had already been scrutiniSed and frozen by Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) in the drug case.

He submitted that the petitioner extended his full cooperation to the CIT and asked it to furnish any link between his corruption and his assets. However, he claimed, not an iota of evidence could...