Court extends interim bail of Usman Buzdar till 25th

LAHORE    –    An accountability court docket on Tuesday prolonged pre-arrest interim bail of former chief minister Punjab Sardar Usman Buzdar until Might 25 in as­units past means inquiry. Accountability Courtroom Decide Sheikh Sajjad Ahmad performed the professional­ceedings on Usman Buzdar’s bail petition. The previous chief minister didn’t seem earlier than the court docket regardless of the expiry of his interim bail.

Buzdar’s counsel submitted an exemption ap­plication on his behalf and said that his consumer didn’t seem attributable to medical causes. He plead­ed with the court docket to exempt his consumer from per­sonal look for one-day. To which, the court docket expressed displeasure and remarked that Usman Buzdar didn’t seem at 5 earlier hearings and a brand new pretext was made at each listening to.

At this stage, the counsel submitted that de­tails of Usman Buzdar’s properties had been submitted to the Nationwide Accountability Bu­reau (NAB). Nevertheless, the NAB investigation officer submitted that full particulars had not been submitted in response to the query­naire. Subsequently, the court docket allowed the ex­emption utility and prolonged the interim bail of Usman Buzdar until Might 25, observing that if he didn’t seem on the subsequent listening to then his bail can be cancelled.