Against Ahad Cheema: NAB to file supplementary reference

Advocate Amjad Pervez requested postponement of indictment for Cheema

LAHORE: An accountability court on Friday extended judicial remand of former Lahore Development Authority (LDA) director general Ahad Cheema for another 13 days in assets-beyond-means case. Accountability Court Judge Syed Najamul Hassan conducted the case proceedings, wherein Cheema was also produced. The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) officials apprised the court that a supplementary reference against Cheema would be filed soon in connection with the case. To which, Advocate Amjad Pervez, on behalf of Cheema, requested for postponing indictment till filing of the supplementary reference. At this, the court adjourned further hearing till January 17 and directed NAB for filing the supplementary reference, besides extending judicial remand of Cheema. NAB had already filed a reference against Cheema in connection with the assets-beyond-means case and a copy of the reference had been provided to the accused on the previous hearing. In the reference, NAB had claimed that former LDA director general possessed assets more than his known sources of income.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 5^th, 2019.