2:20 AM
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court dismissed the National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) appeal against Sharif brothers on Wednesday and ordered it to release all their assets, reported FTNews.
A three-member bench, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, was hearing the case.
NAB Prosecutor General KK Agha also appeared before the court and presented an agreement signed between Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif and the government.
Agha argued against the verdict saying that this way any one can come to get their assets released, but the court responded by saying that the Lahore High Court has already clearly said that the assets which are related to security fall under the court’s jurisdiction and not the NAB.
The court added that the LHC has heard the cases against the family and has released them, and now there is no case left against them.
It also said that keeping the Sharif family assets in custody was an “unlawful and unconstitutional” act on behalf of NAB.
Last year in December, the NAB had appealed in the apex court to challenge the Lahore High Court’s verdict delivered on October 4, 2011 for returning shares worth Rs115 million. The appeal listed PML-N chief Nawaz, his brother Shahbaz Sharif and at least a dozen family members as respondents.
The Lahore High Court’s verdict was also restored in today’s hearing.
NAB had stated that the LHC committed an error in deciding “that there was no agreement/settlement between Mian Nawaz Sharif and the federal government”. The LHC had ignored the SC’s judgment, which clearly proved the existence of such an agreement, according to the appeal.
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