LAHORE: The National Accountability Bureau Lahore has sent ‘judicial guards’ to their parent department after it faced ire of the Supreme Court for presenting former Punjab University vice-chancellor Dr Mujahid Kamran and four others in handcuffs before an accountability court.

Chief Justice of Pakistan had reprimanded the NAB for humiliating the teachers.

The NAB had blamed the judicial guards for presenting the suspects in handcuffs.

Prof Kamran and others were facing charges of making 550 illegal appointments in the varsity.

On Monday, NAB Lahore Director General Shahzad Saleem decided to send all judicial guards back to their parent department.

“From now onward the NAB officials will take the suspects to the accountability court,” a source told Dawn.

He said the NAB officials would take PML-N president Shahbaz Sharif to the accountability court on Tuesday (today) in the Ashiyana housing case and seek extension in his physical remand.

Meanwhile, NAB Lahore arrested another official of the National Highway Authority (NHA), Muhammad Ismail, in the Rs60 million corruption case. The NAB has already arrested four officials in this case.

Published in Dawn, October 16th, 2018