Lahore District and Sessions Judge Mujahid Mustaqeem expressed his displeasure on Friday over a fax message sent by FIA Additional Director General Zafar Qureshi seeking adjournment of the hearing of bail applications filed by the accused in the National Insurance Corporation Limited (NICL) scam case.
Rizwan Bhatti and Muhammad Khalil are co-accused in the NICL scam along with Moonis Elahi and his manager Muhammad Malik. The judge observed that if Zafar Qureshi or any other FIA official wanted to submit anything to the court, they would have to appear in court.
The court had fixed August 19 to hear the post-arrest bail applications filed by Rizwan Bhatti and Muhammad Khalil. On Friday, the court received a fax massage from Qureshi, which asked the court to adjourn the proceedings since the FIA was going to change the prosecutor in this case. The court, expressing its displeasure, however, adjourned the hearing until August 22 and ordered the FIA officials to appear in-person before the court in future.
ATC grants bail to accused in UET paper leak case: An anti-corruption court granted bail on Friday to accused who had been allegedly involved in leaking an entry test paper of University of Engineering and Technology. The court ordered the accused named Suhail, Asif, Ahsan and Azam to submit surety bonds of Rs 100,000 each.
The paper leak case was registered with the Gujar Pura Police under sections 409 (criminal breach of trust by a public servant) and 109 (abetment) of the Pakistan Penal Code against the four accused. Bail denied to accused in illegal organs transplant case: An additional district and sessions judge denied bail on Friday to three accused named Dr Mubashar, Imran and Abdulla in the illegal organs transplant case.
According to police, the accused were arrested red-handed on July 1 from a rented house in Ameer-ud-din Park where they had been running a clinic to conduct illegal organs transplant for over a year. Police said three other accused Nadeem, Mushtaq and Sagheer also aided them.
