ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court of Pakistan Thursday dismissed the bail appeal of former sub-registrar of Pakistan Navy (Civilians Non-gazetted Employees (CNGE)) Cooperative Housing Society in alleged misappropriation of over Rs1.3 billion funds of the society and cheating the public at large.

A three-member bench of the apex court headed by Justice Umar Ata Bandial conducted hearing of the post arrest bail of former sub-registrar of Navy Housing Society, Farman Ali Kalhoro Abbasi.

The petitioner’s counsel requested the court to grant bail to Farman on medical grounds, as he is cardiac patient and retired civil servant.

Justice Bandial said that relief on medical ground is not before this court therefore he should approach the competent forum for bail on medical ground. The counsel therefore withdrew the appeal. The bench dismissed it as per withdrawal.

Justice Bandial noted that there are reasonable grounds to connect the accused with the offence. He said that original plan of the society was in the knowledge of the accused but he ignored it and violated the law.

NAB’s Special Prosecutor General Imran ul Haq told that the accused violated the provision of the Registration (Sindh Amendment) Act, 2013. He said that there were three allegations against the accused are that amenities plots were converted into residential plots.

The NAB had initiated inquiry against the accused on a complaint filed by some allottees of the society and summoned the then secretary of the provincial cooperatives department. The inquiry revealed that the society was allotted 25 acres in Sector 21-A, Scheme-33 in Gulzar-i-Hijri neighbourhood of the metropolis. As per an approved plan, there were 373 residential plots in addition to amenity plots, etc.

NAB alleged that the accused persons in connivance with the then officials of the cooperatives department had allegedly usurped plots in connivance with each other and misappropriated funds of Rs1,367, 299,800.