Khawar Maneka handed over to Punjab ACE on 8-day physical remand

OKARA: Khawar Maneka, the ex-husband of Bushra Bibi, has been remanded into the Punjab Anti-Corruption Establishment on an 8-day physical remand in a corruption case, ARY News reported on Tuesday. 

According to anti-corruption, Khawar Maneka got a marriage hall and some shops constructed ‘illegally’ on the land of a graveyard in Haveli Lakha. On the reference of the Okara deputy commissioner, an inquiry is underway against him.

Maneka, who was arrested yesterday, was presented before a court of Senior Civil Judge, Abrar Ali Khan in Okara. The Punjab ACE officials pleaded with the court to grant a 13-day physical remand of Khawar Maneka, however, the court approved an 8-day physical remand.

Following the remand, the team of anti-corruption left the court premises with Maneka.

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Maneka is a senior official of Customs department, belonging to Pakpattan and is a spiritual devotee of the 13th century mystic Baba Farid Ganj Shakkar.

According to reports, Khawar’s father Ghulam Muhammad Maneka was a politician and also served as a federal minister under Benazir Bhutto. Ghulam Muhammad Maneka passed away in 2011.