LAHORE – An accountability court on Friday adjourned hearing of anapplication for remand of Ahad Cheema, former director general LahoreDevelopment Authority (LDA), till Sept 8, in the LDA city scam.
Earlier, the NAB officials produced Ahad Cheema before Accountability CourtJudge Syed Najamul Hassan and sought physical remand for investigation,submitting that the accused misused his authority as the director generalLDA and extended benefit to property dealers.
However, the court observed that the accused remained in NAB custody formore than three months, and why the investigation was not completed duringthis period.
The court, adjourning the further hearing till Sept 8, sought furtherarguments from the parties on the point.
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It is pertinent to mention here that NAB tried to get the remand of theAhad Cheema on Thursday, but the court adjourned the hearing till Fridaywith a direction to investigation officer to come up prepared after hefailed to satisfy the court.
Ahad Cheema is already on judicial remand in Ashiana Housing scam till Sept11 and he was expected to be indicted soon in the matter as the NABauthorities had filed reference against him.
