Former president Asif Ali Zardari filed a petition in Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday to quash the money laundering and Park Lane trials on references filed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).
Zardari pleaded that he was not guilty in the said reference thus he should be acquitted. He prayed that references be quashed as they are “without jurisdiction, illegal, unlawful, null and void ab-initio.”
On September 23, IHC had extended Zaradri’s interim bail till October 15 and directed NAB to submit a reply again.
The bail application was heard by a two-member special bench comprising Justice Amir Farooq and Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani.
The court approved the former president's request for exemption from attendance. It asked Zardari's lawyer, Farooq H Naek, about the difference in this case as the court had already granted post-arrest bail to his client.
To this, his counsel replied that the case was different as the notice for it came on May 2019.
The NAB prosecutor informed the court that this case was now at the investigation stage; it was previously in the inquiry stage. “We will give arguments on merit in this case. Asif Zardari's arrest warrant is in process,” he added.
An Accountability Court (AC) ordered for former president indictment in three corruption cases after dismissing his acquittal pleas against the references.
The three references included the Park Lane case, the mega-money laundering and Harish & Company [fake accounts] case. The reserved verdict was announced by AC Judge Azam Khan.
The court had summoned all the accused, including the former president, on September 28 (today).
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