Corruption: SHC rejects bail of SSGC ex-deputy managing director

KARACHI:

Sindh High Court rejected on Thursday a bail petition seeking the release of Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC)'s former deputy managing director, Shoaib Warsi, in cases related to illegal gas connections and corruption.

The SHC bench, headed by Justice Naimatullah Phulpoto, rejected the bail petition of the gas utility company's ex-deputy managing director who is currently under custody of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).

NAB had rounded up SSGC's former managing director, Zuhair Siddiqui, and deputy managing director Warsi in November last year for misusing their authority while granting LPG projects, illegally approving industrial, commercial and power generation gas connections and extending illegal consultancy to a private hospital between 2009 and 2013. Last month, an accountability court had extended their physical remand in NAB's custody on charges of corruption.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 19^th,  2016.