LAHORE - The Accountability Court in Lahore Thursday adjourned the hearing of Ashiana Housing Scheme case till October 01.
Accountability Court Judge Sajid Ali conducted the case proceedings, wherein the jail authorities produced Opposition Leader in National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif, Former Secretary Implementation to Chief Minister Fawad Hassan Fawad, Former Lahore Development Authority (LDA) Director General Ahad Cheema and 13 other accused in Accountability court.
Court summons more witnesses in Ashiana housing scam
The court's staff marked their attendance while Fawad Hassan Fawad got exemption from personal appearance. The court adjourned further hearing till October 1 and summoned more prosecution witnesses on the next date of hearing. The court had recorded statements of 23 prosecution witnesses so far whereas the bureau had submitted a list of 86 witnesses in the case. The court had indicted 13 accused including Shehbaz Sharif in the case. The NAB alleged in the reference that Shehbaz Sharif being the Chief Minister of Punjab misused his authority by unlawfully assuming powers of board of Directors of PLDC. It said he in connivance with his co-suspects awarded a contract to an ineligible proxy firm that resulted in failure of Ashiana Housing scheme, causing a loss to public exchequer and deprived 61,000 applicants of houses.