LAHORE: A court on Friday gave PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif and VicePresident Maryam Nawaz a last chance to submit their response to a civilsuit filed against them for allegedly encroaching upon 4,000 acres of landin Jati Umra.

As the court resumed hearing today, their lawyers requested it to give somemore time to file the response. Giving them a last chance to comply withits order, the court adjourned the hearing until January 13.

The suit was moved by a Punjab University Professor Dr Abdul Rauf whoalleged that the Sharif family had grabbed his forefathers’ thousands ofacres of land in Jati Umra.

He claimed that he had documentary evidence that the land in questionbelonged to his forefathers and pleaded with the judge to issue directivesfor removal of encroachment from the land.

Abdul Rauf further demanded that the Sharif family pay him a sum of Rs50billion as financial damages he suffered because of the illegal occupationof the land.

It is noteworthy that Maryam Nawaz is facing a land acquisition inquiryinstituted by the National Accountability Burea (NAB) for allegedlyacquiring 200 hundred acres of land in Raiwind in 2013 in violation ofrules.