LHC grants bail to Fawad in assets beyond means case.

Byline: Shahzad Ahmad

LAHORE -- The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday granted bail to Fawad Hassan Fawad, the former principal secretary to the prime minister, in the assets beyond means case. Fawad, who was principal secretary of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, had filed a second petition in the Lahore High Court for his post-arrest bail on fresh grounds in the case.

The court granted the relief to Fawad subject to furnishing of Rs10 million surety bonds. Earlier, the court had denied bail to the country's top bureaucrat in the assets beyond means case while allowed his bail petition in the Ashiana Housing Scheme case. During yesterday's hearing, Amjad Pervaiz Advocate representing Mr Fawad argued that his client was arrested without any justification in assets beyond means case.

He told the two-member bench headed by Justice Ali Baqar Najafi, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had failed to provide evidence in support of its allegations against Fawad. He submitted that the accountability watchdog had first claimed that Fawad was owner of a plaza worth Rs5 billion and now it was claiming that his family owns assets worth Rs1.08 billion. The counsel further argued that the NAB was now alleging that the property in the name of his wife and brother was benami asset. The bail petition filed by Fawad says, 'I have no personal home except the government residence. I am imprisoned in jail for last one-and-half year without any crime.

My health has deteriorated and medical treatment is not possible in jail.' Denying the NAB allegations...

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