Islamabad High Court rejected the bail petition filed on behalf of former Federal Minister for religious affairs Hamid Saeed Kazmi.
The high court upheld the decision of a lower court that sentenced the minister to 12 years in prison.
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Therefore, Kazmi will be spending Eid in prison.
Kazmi was accused of corruption during the course of renting residential buildings for Pakistani pilgrims in Saudi Arabia and inflicting a loss of billions of rupees to the national exchequer. A case was registered against him and he was arrested on March 15, 2011.