Fraud accused granted bail

LAHORE
A division bench of the Lahore High Court on Monday granted bail to Muhammad Yousaf Manj, brother of former MNA Munawar Manj, in a fraud case.
National Accountability Bureau had made a reference against him in a fraud of Rs65 million.
Appearing before the bench on his behalf, Asad Manzoor Advocate submitted that Mohsin Bhatti was the real accused in the case for committing fraud with different people being owner of New Rehmat Steel Mills. He said he committed fraud with many people. He said Manj was partner of accused Mohsin but he had relinquished his partnership much before the alleged fraud was done.
Therefore, he said, he had nothing to do with fraud and the case against him was politically motivated.
He said he was behind the bars since October 2014 for no reason. He requested the court to grant him bail for being innocent.
Hearing the arguments, the bench headed by Justice Mahmood Maqbool Bajwa granted him bail against furnishing bail bonds worth Rs1 million.
Plea against lawyers disposed of: An additional district and sessions court Monday disposed of a petition filed by a teacher seeking a case against a group of lawyers for allegedly thrashing him when he deflated tyres of the lawyers’ vehicles illegally parked at a school.
The court had sought comments from the SHO concerned. The SHO appeared before the court and submitted his comments.
The SHO stated that the schoolteacher deflated the tyres of the cars of the lawyers parked in the courtyard the school.
He said it was decided in a meeting that during the Lahore Bar Association’s election held on January 10, the lawyers would be allowed to park their cars in the courtyards of two schools Girls Degree Collage and Chishtia High School.
After the decision, the lawyers parked their cars in Chishtia School, but the watchmen and staff deflated the tyres of the lawyers’ cars. The allegations levelled against the lawyers are forged and have nothing to do with reality, the SHO said.
The judge directed the petitioner to approach the SHO who was directed to look into the matter.