LAHORE: An anti-corruption court docket (ATC) on Wednesday discharged the daughter and son-in-law of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif from a case of alleged irregularities within the Punjab Saaf Pani Firm.
Particular Court docket Decide Javed Iqbal Warraich heard two separate acquittal purposes filed by the prime minister’s daughter, Rabia Imran, and her husband Ali Imran Yousaf. The decide noticed that no proof had been discovered linking the candidates to the alleged offense.
The decide additional noticed that the anti-corruption institution (ACE) had submitted its investigation report, declaring each candidates harmless and that the case towards them was not prosecutable.
He mentioned the prosecution additionally said that an accountability court docket had, on Jan 31, 2022, discharged different accused in the identical matter with out framing fees.
The decide remarked that the Nationwide Accountability Bureau (NAB) had didn’t current proof at that stage and even after the case was transferred to ACE and no new proof was produced.
The decide dominated that the candidates weren’t required for arrest on this case and their matter can be thought-about in mild of the accountability court docket’s earlier determination. The decide disposed of the acquittal pleas for being ineffective and acquitted the couple from the fees.
Beforehand, the couple was declared proclaimed offenders for avoiding the court docket’s proceedings towards them. The trial court docket suspended their perpetual arrest warrants after they surrendered earlier than the regulation final month.
The accused acquitted throughout 2022 included Saaf Pani Firm’s former chairman Raja Qamarul Islam and former chief government officer Waseem Ajmal apart from 14 others.
Each Islam and Ajmal had been arrested by NAB in June 2018 and had been later launched on bail granted by the Lahore Excessive Court docket in January 2019.
A day earlier than his arrest, Islam was awarded a ticket by the PML-N for the 2018 election towards former inside minister Ch Nisar Ali Khan, the disgruntled chief of the social gathering, from NA-59, Rawalpindi.
Revealed in Daybreak, Could seventh, 2026