LAHORE: An accountability court has indicted Opposition Leader in theNational Assembly Shehbaz Sharif and his son Hamza Shehbaz in the RamzanSugar Mills reference, on Tuesday.
According to details, both the father-son duo denied the charges and optedto contest them. During the hearing Judge Najamul Hassan read out chargesagainst them.
The judge allowed Shehbaz and Hamza to leave the court after framingcharges against them.
Over the course of the hearing, Shehbaz tried to say something in hisdefence but the judge stopped him. “I saved hundreds of billions of rupeesof the government over 10 years,” the PML-N president said, questioning howcould he have used the national kitty for the construction of a drain.
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The judge assured him that he will be given a fair hearing. “These are justallegations against you, which are yet to be proved,” he added.
Strict security arrangements were made with a good number of securitypersonnel deployed at the court to avoid any untoward incident.
