KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Tuesday dismissed a petition of the imprisoned former information minister Sharjeel Memon through which he intended to seek pre-arrest bail in a case related to the illegal allotment of the state land in Malir district.
A division bench of the SHC dismissed the petition for having become irrelevant after the arrest of Memon.
It observed that since the PPP leader has already been arrested, his plea for bail before arrest has been rendered ineffective.
Memon was taken into custody on October 23 along with other suspects from outside the SHC main building after the court revoked their interim bail in a case pertaining to the corruption of Rs5.76 billion in the provincial information department.
Memon has also been charged in another case which pertained to his alleged role in getting the state land allotted and adjusted in 43 Dehs at throwaway prices for a property developer, depriving the public exchequer of billions of rupees in revenue.
Sharjeel Memon, who had returned to Pakistan in March this year after his two-year-long self-imposed exile, is facing several charges of misappropriation and corruption.
A reference filed against him related to the alleged award of government advertisements at exorbitant rates, causing loss of more than Rs 5 billion to the national exchequer.
