LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) lawmaker Afzal Nadeem Khokhar on Tuesday was arrested on land grabbing charges from the Supreme Court’s Lahore registry premises.
According to the local police, “Khokhar was arrested for illegally taking into possession 34 marla land of a citizen, Tariq Mahmood, a few years back.”
“Khokhar has built his home on the grabbed land,” stated an FIR registered by Mahmood. “I am giving lawyer Fayyaz Ahmed the authority to fight the case as I am residing in London right now.”
On December 15, the apex court had issued orders to put names of Afzal Khokhar and his brother Saiful Malook Khokhar on the Exit Control List.
The orders were issued by a two-member bench headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar at the Lahore registry while hearing a suo motu notice of the encroachments on land owned by Lahore Development Authority in different parts of Lahore.
The chief justice had directed the Khokhar brothers to submit their property documents before the court.
“It’s better if you give the grabbed property back to the widows and overseas Pakistanis,” CJP Nisar had told MPA Saiful Mulook Khokhar. “If the grabbing is proven I won’t spare you. Everyone knows I do what I say. It’s better if you don’t take risk of your MPAship.”
The chief justice had then directed the police officials and LDA to recover the alleged land grabbed by the Khokhar brothers.