KARACHI: Pir Mazhar-ul-Haq, the nominated leader of the House in the Sindh Assembly, was acquitted from two accountability references on Monday by an Accountability Court presided over by Judge Syed Aley Maqbool Rizvi.

The decision came in an application moved under Section 265-K of the Cr.P.C. According to the prosecution, the accused allowed the regularization of three plots of one acre each and an 8,000 square-yard plot in his capacity as the Housing and Town Planning Minister, Sindh, during the PPP’s previous regime.

Advocates Shahadat Awan and Nafees Usmani, appearing for the applicant, held that the accused was falsely implicated by former Sindh chief minister Liaquat Ali Jatoi for political motives. Relying on the judgment by the same court in a case against five officials of the KDA, the defense counsel submitted that the accused had not been tried and acquitted by this court for want of evidence.

The case against Haq has been pending for the last eleven years in which the prosecution failed to produce any evidence which could lead to conviction and sentencing.

The NAB court, after hearing the arguments, allowed the acquittal plea, exonerating the applicant from the charges of allowing illegal regularization and causing loss to the exchequer.

APP adds: Accountability Court (ACC-I), Karachi adjourned on Monday the hearing of a KPT land scam against R.B. Rahu and others till Tuesday for further arguments by counsel for the accused in an application moved by them under section 7 of the National

Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO- 2007) read with section 265-K of the Cr.P.C. The case pertains to the allotment of 75 acres of KPT land at Mai Kolachi to influential persons allegedly at throwaway prices. The land was worth Rs 3,000 million but was sold for a paltry sum of Rs 204.97 million, it was maintained.

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