Supreme Court returns back bail plea of Agha Siraj Durrani

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court registrar office has returned the pre-arrest bail plea of Agha Siraj Durrani with objections, quoting sources ARY News reported on Saturday.

Sindh Assembly Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani on Friday had moved a petition in the apex Court seeking pre-arrest bail in a graft reference.

The registrar office returned back the bail plea with objections, sources said.

According to sources, registrar office has objected over Durrani’s failure to present himself for arrest after his bail petition rejected by the Sindh High Court. The office has also objectd over the petitioner’s failure to submit an undertaking, sources said.

The PPP leader had gone into hiding to avoid his arrest at the hands of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) after the SHC revoked his bail.

On Oct 14, the SHC had turned down the interim bail of provincial assembly speaker Agha Siraj Durrani in the assets reference filed by the corruption watchdog.

The high court, however, allowed the bail petitions of Mr Durrani’s wife, three daughters, a son and two others in the same reference.

Subsequently, a NAB team raided the residence of Durrani to arrest him but it had to return empty-handed as he was not present there.

The bureau had filed a reference against the speaker, his brother Agha Masihuddin, wife, son, daughters as well as 13 others before a NAB court in 2019 for allegedly accumulating assets worth over Rs1.61 billion through illegal means.