QUETTA: Senator Sarfaraz Ahmed Bugti, who is a former home minister of Balochistan, was on Monday granted interim bail in a kidnapping case.

Mr Bugti, along with his lawyers Kamran Murtaza and Noor Jan Buledi, appeared before Sessions Judge Aftab Ahmed Loan and filed an application seeking interim bail in the case registered against him in Bijli road police station on Saturday by a woman who alleged that the former minister had kidnapped her 10-year-old granddaughter.

The court granted interim bail to Mr Bugti and ordered him to submit a surety bound of Rs2 million and put off the hearing till Dec 21.

Published in Dawn, December 10th, 2019

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