Sugar mills case adjourned till Aug 21

Court also allows exemption application of Shehbaz

LAHORE: An accountability court on Friday adjourned the hearing of Ramzan Sugar Mills case till August 21. Accountability Court Judge Naeem Arshad conducted the proceedings wherein opposition leader in Punjab Assembly Hamza Shehbaz was produced on expiry of his judicial remand. In response to a court query, advocate Amjad Parvaiz on behalf of Shehbaz Sharif, opposition leader in National Assembly, submitted that his client was busy in Islamabad in connection with National Assembly session. He pleaded with the court to accept exemption application of Shehbaz for today. The NAB officials submitted that supplementary reference against Hamza had been prepared and it would be filed soon. Subsequently, the court adjourned further proceedings till August 21 while extending judicial remand of Hamza. The court also allowed exemption application of Shehbaz.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 10^th, 2019.