LHC suspends arrest warrant of ex-CJP's son-in-law.

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday suspended warrants for the arrest of former chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry's son-in-law and an accountability court's order declaring him a proclaimed offender in the Eden Housing Scheme scam.

Ifra Murtaza, daughter of the former chief justice, pleaded through counsel Asad Manzoor Butt that the NAB mischievously had her husband Murtaza Amjad declared a proclaimed offender by the trial court and later arrested him from Dubai through Interpol.

She said her husband had not been produced before any court of law.

The counsel argued that the NAB procured the impugned orders without filing a reference before the trial court which was mandatory to prosecute a suspect. He asked the court to declare the arrest warrants of the petitioner's husband illegal and also set aside the trial court's order to declare him a PO.

Opposing the petition, a NAB prosecutor pleaded that the petition was not maintainable as the petitioner was not an aggrieved party to the case.

A two-judge bench headed by Justice Malik Shahzad Ahmad Khan, however, suspended the...