IHC Chief Justice Aamir Farooq-led bench rejects NAB’s request to remand again case to accountability court docket
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad Excessive Courtroom (IHC) on Thursday determined to listen to Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif’s attraction towards his conviction within the Al-Azizia reference on benefit.
A division bench, consisting of Chief Justice Aamir Farooq and Justice Mian Gul Hasan Aurangzeb, heard the previous premier’s attraction.
In the course of the case listening to, the Nationwide Accountability Bureau (NAB) implored the IHC to remand again the attraction to the accountability court docket.
Nevertheless, the bench rejected the NAB’s attraction and determined to listen to the matter on benefit.
The PML-N supremo alongside along with his authorized crew appeared within the court docket.
On December 24, 2018, the accountability court docket sentenced the previous prime minister to seven years in jail and imposed a superb of two.5 million kilos within the Al-Azizia Metal Mills reference.
Nawaz had submitted an attraction towards the choice of the accountability court docket, requesting the court docket to annul the choice of imprisonment and superb.
The NAB has taken the stand within the attraction that the accountability court docket awarded a lesser sentence and it must be enhanced.
Over the past listening to on November 29, the IHC accepted the attraction of the previous prime minister and acquitted him within the Avenfield Residences reference.
The NAB additionally withdrew its attraction from the excessive court docket towards the acquittal of Nawaz within the Flagship reference.
On July 28, 2017, the Supreme Courtroom disqualified former prime minister Nawaz Sharif for not declaring a recieveable wage and ordered NAB to file Avenfield, Al-Azizia Metal Mills and Flagship references following Panama Papers revelations.
Whereas serving the sentence within the Al-Azizia case, Nawaz was identified with an immune system dysfunction and subsequently allowed to journey overseas for remedy as per medical doctors’ recommendation.
In December 2020, Nawaz was declared a “proclaimed offender” in each instances for “intentionally” not returning to the nation.
After he failed to seem within the IHC in the course of the appeals proceedings, the IHC bench headed by Justice Farooq dismissed his appeals towards convictions on June 24, 2021.
In October this yr, Nawaz returned to the nation after acquiring protecting bail in each graft instances and surrendered earlier than the court docket, after which his appeals had been restored.