LAHORE: An accountability court on Friday rejected the National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) request for an extension in the physical remand of the Punjab Assembly Opposition Leader Hamza Shahbaz in the Ramzan Sugar Mills case. NAB Hamza Shehbaz on June 11 after the Lahore High Court (LHC) dismissed his bail petitions in the Saaf Pani Company, Ramzan Sugar Mills and money laundering cases. While rejecting bureau’s request for an extension in physical remand in the Ramzan Sugar Mills case on Friday, the court sent him on judicial remand and ordered that the PML-N leader be produced again on July 20. The legal counsel of Hamza questioned the bureau’s request of elongated physical remand and said that it is beyond understanding that why the need for a physical remand has arisen when a reference had already been filed in the Ramzan Sugar Mills case. During the proceedings, Hamza labelled Ramzan Sugar Mills a fake and a baseless case.

Source: Pakistan Today July 05, 2019 09:49 UTC