LAHORE: An accountability court on Monday extended judicial remand of former vice chancellor of Punjab University Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran and five other professors in a case of illegal appointments.

Earlier, jail officials produced Kamran, two former registrars Prof Dr Raas Masood and Prof Dr Liaqat Ali and two additional registrars Prof Dr Aurangzaib Alamgir and Prof Dr Kamran Abid before the court.

A NAB prosecutor told the court that the former VC was also involved in illegal appointment of his wife Dr Shazia Qureshi as principal of Punjab University Law College in addition to over 100 ‘political’ inductions during his nine-year stint.

He also accused Kamran of misappropriating university’s funds.

The counsel for the suspects complained to the court that the NAB allowed them to visit their clients once a week only. Whereas, they said, other suspects of the NAB were allowed to meet their lawyers more than once. The court asked the counsel to file an application to this effect.

The counsel further told the court that bail petitions of the suspects had been filed in the Lahore High Court.

The NAB had arrested Kamran and others on Oct 10. The court had sent the suspects to jail on judicial remand after the bureau did not press for their further custody on Oct 22.

MANSHA: An anti-terrorism court on Monday remanded alleged land-grabber Mansha alias Bamm and his son

Asim Mansha in one-day police custody in another case of illegally occupying people’s land in Johar Town.

Both father and the son are already on physical remand in six similar cases of land grabbing and attacking the government officials.

The police accused them of grabbing lands of different individuals worth millions of rupees, besides attacking anti-encroachment squads of the Lahore Development Authority.

Published in Dawn, November 6th, 2018