ISLAMABAD, July 27: A double bench of the Lahore High Court on Thursday suspended the National Accountability Bureau court decision in a vehicle registration case.

The NAB court had convicted and sentenced a former Deputy Inspector General Police and a lower employee from Northern Areas to 10-year imprisonment.

The court had found former DIG Raja Muzzafar Hussain Khan and a clerk of Regional Transport Authority Ali Raza of the Northern Areas Administration guilty of registering 29 vehicles for which custom duties had not been paid. They were arrested for giving millions of rupees loss to the national exchequer.

On Thursday, their case was heard by a division bench comprising of Justice Abdul Shakoor Paracha and Justice Syed Sakhi Hussain Shah Bukhari.

The petitioner counsel Waseem Sajjad Advocate argued before the court that the vehicles were auctioned at PAF Rawalpindi adding that their registration was according to rules and regulations. No irregularities had been committed in the process and as such no financial loss given to the government, he further contended.