KARACHI: A builder escaped from the City Courts premises after a court revoked his interim bail in a case pertaining to cheating.

Ashok Kumar has been booked in a case pertaining to allegedly cheating the people who got booked expensive flats in his multi-story residential project in Clifton.

Additional District and Sessions Judge (South) Naseer Noor Khan pronounced his order reserved earlier after hearing arguments on the application seeking confirmation or otherwise of the interim pre-arrest bail.

The judge recalled his previous order of granting the interim bail to the applicant on July 28 and dismissed his application. The builder escaped from the courtroom following the bail dismissal, as the investigating officer of the case was not present to arrest him, witnesses and lawyers told Dawn.

According to the complainants, the builder had launched an 18-storey residential project in Clifton in 2016, but had only constructed the ground floor contrary to his commitments to the customers and took money received from them in advance.

Three FIRs pertaining to alleged cheating have been lodged against him at the Clifton police station on the complaints of the customers.

Published in Dawn, September 4th, 2022