LAHORE, Nov 05 (DNA): The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) vice president Maryam Nawaz will not be released from jail today as the party failed to submit her surety bonds.

The PML-N’s lawyer informed Registrar Lahore High Court that all the documents related to Maryam Nawaz’s bail have been completed. He requested the Registrar to issue instructions for obtaining bail bonds.

Registrar LHC rejected the request of Maryam Nawaz’s lawyer and stated that the surety bonds will be accepted tomorrow now as the time of the Federal Courts is till three o’clock in the afternoon and all the judges of the accountability courts have left already.

The bail has been granted against two surety bonds worth 10 million

apiece.

On Nov 4, The Lahore High Court (LHC) has granted bail to Pakistan

Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) vice president Maryam Nawaz in Chaudhry

Sugar Mills case, Dunya News reported.

A two-member bench headed by Justice Ali Baqar Najafi announced the

verdict – reserved on October 31 – on Maryam Nawaz’s bail plea. The

bench has directed Maryam Nawaz to submit her passport in the LHC.

The court order consisting of 24 pages also directed the PML-N leader to

deposit 70 million separately with the court.

The detailed verdict stated that it has been agreed that Maryam Nawaz

being a woman must be given bail as she neither remained absconder nor

did she created hurdles in interrogation.

The verdict further stated that corruption prevails in the country that

needed to be controlled with firm hands. It added that the arrest of a

person cannot be used as indictment.

LHC said it cannot intervene in the matters of trial court. It said

allegations of withdrawal of Rs700 million from the account of Maryam

Nawaz needs further investigation.

It further said the statement of Naseer Abdullah submitted by

prosecution was not attested by Foreign Office and the statements of

foreigners were still not recorded in Chaudhary Sugar Mills case.

During the previous hearing, National Accountability Bureau (NAB)

prosecutor responded to the arguments recorded by defence lawyer Amjad

Pervez and opposed Maryam’s bail in the case, saying that proceedings

against her were launched in accordance with the law on a report

submitted by the Financial Monitoring Unit in 2018.

“There are chances that the accused could flee the country or go

underground if released on bail,” NAB maintained.

Previously, lawyer Amjad Pervez said that money laundering case against

his client is baseless and that she was made Chief Executive of Chaudhry

Sugar Mills only in papers. NAB had breached law and arrested Maryam in

money laundering case despite revealing all the assets in Panama Leaks

case, he added.

Earlier, NAB had submitted preliminary investigative report to the LHC

stating that PML-N vice-president’s crime is not against one individual

but the entire society, and she keeps on obstructing the probe against

her. “Yousaf Abbas, accused in Chaudhry Sugar Mills reference, had also

tried to escape before”, read the report.

The PML-N leader owned 8,064,000 shares of Sugar Mills, while from 2008

to 2010, she became the owner of 47% shares. Nawaz Sharif and his

daughter, Maryam Nawaz, invested in Chaudhry and Shamim Sugar Mills, but

both of them did not disclose their investments, the reported added.

On October 24, Maryam Nawaz had filed a plea in LHC requesting the court

to release her on bail as her father was unwell and undergoing medical

treatment at the hospital..”DNA