Chaudhry Sugar Mills case: NAB moves SC against bail to Maryam Nawaz

ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Friday requested the Supreme Court to set aside the order passed by the Lahore High Court (LHC), granting post-arrest bail to PML-N leader Maryam Nawaz in the Chaudhry Sugar Mills case.

The NAB chairman through Prosecutor General filed a petition under Article 185 of the Constitution seeking leave to appeal against the order passed by the LHC granting post-arrest bail to Mariam Nawaz.

On November 4, the LHC granted bail to Maryam Nawaz who was arrested on August 8 in the Chaudhry Sugar Mills (CSM) case.

A two-member bench of the high court comprising Justice Ali Baqar Najafi and Justice Sardar Ahmad Naeem, while announcing the verdict, had granted post-arrest bail to Mariam Nawaz directing her to furnish two surety bonds each worth Rs10 million, and deposit an additional Rs70 million and surrender her passport to secure her release.

The anti-graft body prayed to the apex court to allow for examining the legality, propriety and vires of the impugned judgment of the LHC as it has not appreciated the evidence available in record in its true perspective, which resulted in grave miscarriage of justice and has prejudiced the case of the prosecution.

"It is likelihood that the respondent Mariam Nawaz could be influential in tampering with the prosecution evidence in the proceedings undertaken by the Bureau therefore, the concession of post-arrest bail already granted to the said respondent be recalled by setting aside the impugned judgment”, it said.