KARACHI – Four bags full of cash were recovered from the room of a Karachihospital where the former Sindh information minister was being treated forhis heart condition, an eyewitness revealed late Saturday, Daily Pakistanhas reported.
Memon, who had been under treatment and in judicial custody at the ZiauddinHospital’s Shirin Jinnah branch, where his room had been declared asub-jail, had a surprise visitor – the Chief Justice of Pakistan – onFriday. The facility housing the PPP leader was one of three hospitals thatthe chief justice paid surprise visits to this morning before arriving atthe Supreme Court’s Karachi registry.
While CJP Saqib Nisar sent the incarcerated PPP leader back to the portcity’s Central Jail soon after the discovery of three bottles of ‘liquor’in his room, the raiding authorities also managed to recover four bags ofcash carefully hidden inside the false ceiling of the hospital room.
Sources close to the raid confirmed to Daily Pakistan that later theofficials took away the bags with them.
It is yet unclear how much money was there inside the bags and what Memonwas doing with such a large quantity of cash inside his hospital room.
With no mention of cash, police took two people into custody over thediscovery of liquor at the hospital.
Later, Boat Basin police registered a case against Memon and his threeservants over possessing intoxicants.
One was said to be a driver employed by Memon. He claimed that one of thebottles had held cooking oil, and the other honey.
Police said they have collected blood samples from Memon and that “therewill be an inquiry” and “action will be taken against those foundresponsible”.
The police have also taken DVR from the hospital for investigation purpose.
Moreover, security personnel deployed outside Memon’s room would also beinterrogated.