Court to indict Agha Siraj Durrani in assets case on December 3
- By Web Desk -
- Nov 19, 2019
KARACHI: An accountability court on Tuesday decided to indict Sindh Assembly Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani and other accused in an ongoing investigation of assets beyond known sources of income, ARY News reported.
The hearing of the case was conducted in Karachi’s AC, in which Agha Siraj Durrani and co-accused were presented before the court.
The court while ordering to separate Durrani’s wife, his son and daughters from the reference, ordered authorities concerned to initiate proceedings of the declaring the accused fugitive.
Later, the court adjourned the hearing of the case till December 3 and announced to indict speaker Sindh Assembly and other accused named in the reference on the same date.
The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) stalwart has been in jail in a NAB reference about assets beyond known sources of income.
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On July 20 last year, the anti-corruption body had ordered an inquiry on charges of corruption against the Sindh Assembly speaker.
The NAB prosecution named 20 persons including Durrani as accused in the reference filed in accountability court Karachi after an inquiry.
According to the NAB charge-sheet, the accused were involved in corruption of upto 1.6 billion rupees.
The NAB Karachi had arrested Agha Siraj Durrani from a hotel in Islamabad in February this year.