ISLAMABAD: An accountability court of Karachi Wednesday gave ten-year imprisonment each to three accused persons and slapped fine in separate corruption references filed by National Accountability Bureau (NAB).
The court awarded ten-year imprisonment to accused Tanveer Hussain and imposed Rs 25 million fine in reference No. 54/2016. However, the other accused in the same case Fida Hussain was acquitted.
Likewise, the court awarded ten-year rigorous imprisonment to accused woman Hina Jabeen with 4.390 million fine while the accused Ali Majad Kiyani was sentenced to seven-year rigorous jail with Rs one million fine in reference No. 71/2007. However, the accused Athar Hassan Abdeeb was acquitted by the court.
The court jailed co-accused Raja Muhammad Asif for ten years in reference No. 39/2015 and slapped a fine of Rs 35 million.
Similarly, the court maintained three-year imprisonment sentence to each Aleem Mehmood and Sardar Hussain besides reducing their fine to Rs 3.586 million fine in corruption reference.
AFP