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LAHORE, May 6: The Lahore High Court chief justice on Monday issued notices to 24 parties for May 20 and 22 on an application filed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) for transfer of appeals against convictions awarded by accountability courts of Rawalpindi and Attock to the Lahore High Court Rawalpindi bench.
Meanwhile, the CJ transferred five appeals of Dr. Abdul Qadoos, Moazzam Rashid Dar, Usman Ghani, Adnan Khwaja and Abdur Rauf to the Rawalpindi appellate bench and rejected two applications of NAB for transfer of Amjad Rashid and Khalid Khan, Wapda XENs, as their cases were at final stages.
The CJ also ordered that bail applications of Brig Imtiaz Ahmad (retired) and Chaudhry Sher Ali would be heard at Lahore while their main appeals would be heard at Rawalpindi bench.
NAB deputy prosecutor general Abdul Baseer Qureshi informed the court that an appellate bench had also been constituted at the Rawalpindi bench and Rawalpindi origin appeals should be transferred there. He said the record could be provided easily there.
The parties who were issued notices included former ISI chief Brig Imtiaz Ahmad (retired), Nasreen Imtiaz, Chaudhry Sher Ali, Malik Asad Ali, Shafi Sehwani, Farzana Sehwani and Adnan Khwaja.
BAIL GRANTED: The Lahore High Court granted bail to a murder accused and observed that the complainant made the case of two version.
The court further observed that now the case needed further inquiry.
The bail petition filed by Munawwar Ali through his counsel submitted that his client was implicated in a murder case and Zulfiqar Ali, the son of the deceased, lodged a complaint against the petitioner. But later in a statement, he changed his version that the petitioner was innocent.
The counsel said the complainant made the case of two version and now the petitioner was entitled to bail.—APP
