The Supreme Court on Friday rejected Pakistan People&
#8217;s Party (PPP) leader Sh
arjeel Memon&
#8217;s bail plea in a graft reference filed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).
As the hearing went underway, the court asked about the whereabouts of Memon to which a NAB prosecutor said he (Memon) had been hospitalised from May.
The prosecutor further informed the court that according to the report of a private hospital, Sh
arjeel was not suffering from any serious disease and that he was suggested physiotherapy.
The court then rejected PPP leader Sh
arjeel Memon&
#8217;s plea.
The former Sindh minister along with other suspects is accused of corruption worth Rs 5.76 billion in the award of advertisements to the electronic media. The other accused in the case include bureaucrats, officials of the Information Department and member
s of private advertising agencies.
Memon claims the charges against him are pol
itically motivated.
Published in Daily Times, September 1st
2018.
