Former KWSB MD granted pre-arrest bail

Hashim Raza Zaidi being probed in land allotment case

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court granted pre-arrest interim bail to the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board's former managing director Hashim Raza Zaidi in an inquiry of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) pertaining to the allotment of 16 acres on fake documents.

Zaidi approached the SHC, saying that the NAB issued him a call-up notice about inquiry over the allotment of 16 acres for Ahsan Dreamland Housing Project on fake documents.

The petitioner said that he was working as an executive district officer on October 12, 2005, and had nothing to do with the allotment. The petitioner had passed on the case of Allah Bux, who was then in occupation and ownership of 16 acres adjacent to the land belonging to the Ahsan Dreamland Housing Project.

Zaidi stated that the NAB authorities were harassing him in the alleged inquiry. Maintaining that he is willing to join the investigation, Zaidi apprehends his arrest at the hands of the NAB authorities. He also pleaded the court grant him pre-arrest bail.

The bench issued notices to the NAB prosecutor and other relevant authorities to appear before the court on October 2.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 20^th, 2015.