KARACHI: Two owners and three employees of the Regent Plaza Hotel were on Saturday granted protective bail for four days by the Sindh High Court in the hotel fire case.

A two-judge bench headed by Justice Irfan Saadat Khan granted bail to hotel chief executive officer Muzaffar Baweja, managing director Zubair Baweja, chief security officer retired Major Saad, chief engineer Arshad Mughal and supervising engineer Saleem Pervez against a sum of Rs200,000 for each.

The bench directed the five men to approach the trial court within four days for confirmation of the bail.

Published in Dawn December 11th, 2016

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