The Islamabad High Court (IHC) registrar office has listed the National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) appeals against acquittal of recently appointed Minister for Finance Shaukat Tarin in two graft cases. The court will take up the appeals on June 1.
Tarin, who took oath as the fourth finance minister of Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday, had requested the court for an early hearing of the appeals filed by NAB. An accountability court of Islamabad on June 25, 2020 acquitted former prime minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, Tarin – who also served as finance minister during the last PPP rule — and some former bureaucrats and directors of a power holding company in the Sahiwal Rental Power Project case.
The same court — Islamabad Accountability Court-I — on June 30, 2020 acquitted Raja Pervaiz Ashraf and seven others – including Tarin – in the Pira Ghaib rental power plant (RPP) reference. NAB had challenged acquittal of the accused in the IHC. Tarin had later moved an application for early hearing of the appeals and the court’s registrar office on Saturday issued the cause list. Earlier the court had ordered the registrar office to list the case according to the coronavirus policy.
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