ISLAMABAD: Leader of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Hamza Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday requested the Supreme Court to adjourn hearing of his case as his lawyer "is unable to appear" before it on Thursday (today).
A three-member bench, headed by Justice Mushir Alam, will hear the National Accountability Bureau (NAB)'s appeal against the Lahore High Court (LHC)'s order to grant bail to the Opposition Leader in the Punjab Assembly, Hamza Shehbaz in Ramzan Sugar Mills scam.
Chaudhry Akhtar Ali, advocate on record, submitted an application on behalf of the PML-N leader, stating that the petitioner's counsel, Amjad Pervez, "is indisposed"; therefore, he is unable to travel from Lahore to Islamabad to appear before the apex court.
The application further submitted that therefore, the case be adjourned.
The NAB on March 21, 2020, had approached the Supreme Court to cancel bail of Hamza Shehbaz Sharif.
The NAB chairman filed a petition through the prosecutor general under Article 185 of the Constitution seeking leave to appeal against the order passed by a division bench of the LHC on February 6, 2020, granting bail to Hamza in Ramazan Sugar Mills corruption case.
The NAB submitted that the division bench of the LHC had fallen into error by not considering the cardinal principles of criminal law as envisaged under the provisions of Section (9) (b) NAO, 1999.
It further submitted that the high court had not appreciated the evidence available on record in its true perspective, which resulted in grave miscarriage of justice, and had prejudiced the case of the prosecution.
It prayed before the apex court to grant leave to appeal against the order passed on February 6, 2020, passed by the LHC.
The NAB questioned as to whether the LHC erred in not considering that the constitutional petition was neither maintainable nor competent, and suffered from legal infirmities, the fact was duly apprised during the hearing but not finding to that extent was given by the court.
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