Accountability court declares Mir Shakil innocent in property case

 JournalismPakistan.com |  Published: 2 February 2022

An accountability court in Lahore declared Jang-Geo Editor-in-Chief Mir Shakil-ur-Rehman innocent of all charges in a property transaction case. The ruling allows for the release of all seized properties related to the case.

Summary

LAHORE—An accountability court in Lahore has acquitted Jang-Geo Editor-in-Chief Mir Shakil-ur-Rehman and all the other suspects named in a case relating to a property transaction that took place more than three decades ago.

The accountability court declared that no charges were proved against the suspects and declared them innocent. The court further issued an order to release all seized properties of Rahman.

NAB had filed the reference over the property deal reached with private landowners in 1986. Based on this purchase, the anti-graft body had summoned Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman on March 5, 2020.

The editor-in-chief had presented all the land documents and recorded his statement. However, NAB had summoned him again on March 12 and arrested him.

A three-member bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Justice Mushir Alam and comprising Justice Yahya Afridi and Justice Qazi Muhammad Amin Ahmed, heard the bail plea of Rahman.

On November 9, 2020, the Supreme Court granted Rahman bail.