The Sindh High Court on Thursday granted protective bail to former Sindh minister for local government Jam Khan Shoro.
Earlier in the day, the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader approached the SHC for protective bail after the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) issued his arrest warrants for alleged corruption.
As a two-judge bench of the SHC took up the ex-minister’s plea, his counsel said that the the anti-corruption watchdog wanted to take his client into custody. “We were issued a call-up notice in June,” he said.
To this, NAB officials said, “Shoro was involved in corruption in the allotment of plots in Karachi Development Authority.” The court then asked NAB officials, “If you have arrest warrants then will he be detained from the court premises?” The SHC then granted protective bail to the ex-minister and asked him to furnish bail bonds worth Rs 1 million. Earlier, NAB said that teams had been formed for the arrest of the PPP leader. The anti-graft body had initiated a probe against former Sindh minister in October 2017 for allegedly occupying government land.
Published in Daily Times, October 19th 2018.
