NAB Remand Challenge: LHC reserves verdict on Naeem’s plea

Petition filed by Dr Majid Naeem, former IT consultant for the BISE in Punjab, challenging his physical remand by NAB.

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Thursday reserved its verdict on a petition filed by Dr Majid Naeem, former IT consultant for the Boards of Intermediate and Secondary Education in Punjab, challenging his physical remand by the National Accountability Bureau. Dr Naeem pleaded that the bureau’s investigating officer had arrested him without permission from the competent authority, the NAB chairman. He said that the case against him was fabricated and based on malicious intent.

He asked the court to declare his arrest and an accountability court’s decision to remand him in NAB custody as illegal. NAB arrested Dr Naeem for allegedly misappropriating Rs2,797,850 from the Punjab University during his stint as principal of the PU College of Information Technology. The court had already dismissed his acquittal application in the case.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 25^th, 2011.