KARACHI: An accountability court (ATC) on Wednesday directed for the formation of a medical board for the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader and Member Sindh Assembly (MPA), Sharjeel Inam Memon, presently in police custody as investigation is being carried out against him and 11 others regarding a corruption case.
According to the reports, the board will determine whether Memon can be treated at Karachi’s jail or not and will comprise a neurologist and a neurophysician among other specialists.
Memon’s lawyer, however, maintained that it is not possible for Memon to be treated at the Karachi jail.
The National Accountability Board’s (NAB) prosecutor, on the other hand, denied Memon being ill and said that the formation of this medical board was completely unnecessary.
The court directed the health secretary to reply till December 16 about the medical services available at the jail’s medical facility, failing which he will have to face contempt of court proceedings.
The NAB filed the reference on October 2 last year, alleging Memon, Akbar and others of corruption. Memon and co-accused were arrested by the NAB following the cancellation of their interim bail by the Sindh High Court (SHC) October 23 this year.
Besides him, the former provincial information secretary Zulfiqar Ali Shalwani, deputy directors of information department Anita Baloch, Mansoor Ahmed Rajput and Mohammed Yousuf Kaboro, Syed Masood Hashmi of the Orient Communication (PVT) Ltd, Gulzar Ali and Salman Mansoor of Adarts and Inam Akbar of Evernew Concepts were among the 17 accused cited in the reference.
On December 4, the NAB court was expected to convict Memon and eleven co-accused, however, no progress was made in the regard and the hearing was delayed until December 14.
This prompted the court to defer the indictment of all accused till the next hearing.
Meanwhile, Memon’s counsel moved an application, asking the court to tell the provincial government to form a medical board for examination.
