*LAHORE: **Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's physical remand has been granted to the National Accountability Bureau.*
*An accountability court granted 14 days’ physical remand of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif to the National Accountability Bureau in Chaudhry Sugar Mills case. *
The NAB officials today arrested jailed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif this morning in Chaudhry Sugar Mills case.
An investigation team of NAB after taking the former prime minister into custody at Kot Lakhpat Jail produced him to the accountability court. The court granted NAB’s plea for remand of Nawaz Sharif for questioning in the case.
Earlier, security was stepped up in Lahore and all roads leading to the Judicial Complex were sealed.
The top leaders of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz reached the court for the case hearing.
Earlier, investigation officer Hamid Javed shown the arrest warrant of Nawaz Sharif to Superintendent Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore.