The Lahore High Court\u2019s (LHC) Rawalpindi bench on Friday suspended Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah\u2019s arrest warrant in an inquiry related to the purchase of plots in a housing society at a \u201cthrowaway price\u201d.<\/p>\n
Last week, the court of Special Judicial Magistrate Ghulam Akbar had issued an arrest warrant for Sanaullah.<\/p>\n
According to Adviser to Punjab Chief Minister for Anti-Corruption retired Brigadier Musaddiq Abbasi, Sanaullah had taken two plots as a \u201cbribe\u201d from an \u201cillegal housing society\u201d \u2014 the Bismillah Housing Scheme \u2014 in Chakwal district.<\/p>\n
Taking up a petition filed by Sanaullah\u2019s lawyer against the warrant today, Justice Sadaqat Ali Khan stopped the Punjab Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) from arresting the minister and raiding his house.<\/p>\n
The court has sought the case record from ACE by October 17.<\/p>\n
On October 10, an ACE team returned empty-handed from Islamabad\u2019s Secretariat Police Station after failing to arrest Sanaullah because of a \u201clack of cooperation\u201d by the Islamabad police.<\/p>\n
However, the Islamabad police had claimed that ACE refused to present the record in the case.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, earlier this week, Sanaullah accused the anti-corruption department of \u201ctampering records\u201d and \u201cmisleading the court\u201d in a four-year-old case against him.<\/p>\n
\u201cACE has obtained the warrant by deceiving and misleading the court by deliberately hiding the facts. This is why they are hiding the case records along with the warrant which is a legal requirement,\u201d the minister said, adding that he would approach the court against ACE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Lahore High Court\u2019s (LHC) Rawalpindi bench on Friday suspended Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah\u2019s arrest warrant in an inquiry related to the purchase of plots in a housing society at a \u201cthrowaway price\u201d. Last week, the court of Special Judicial Magistrate Ghulam Akbar had issued an arrest warrant for Sanaullah. According to Adviser to Punjab […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10887,11059,1669,1446],"class_list":{"0":"post-289218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"tag-arrest-warrant","9":"tag-land-scam-case","10":"tag-lhc","11":"tag-rana-sanaullah"},"yoast_head":"\n