The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Wednesday sought more time from the Accountability Court, hearing multibillion rupees fake bank accounts case, for filing a supplementary reference in Thatta water supply scheme reference.

Accountability Court Judge Azam Khan hearing the case directed NAB to file supplementary reference during the next hearing of case to be held on January 27. Accused Abdul Ghani Majeed could not be produced before the court.

The court was informed that bureau has completed legal process of declaring Minahil Majeed an absconder because of her continuous absence from the court. The investigation officer submitted report regarding declaring Minahil Majeed as absconder. The computerized national identity card (CNIC) of the accused has been blocked and all formalities required for declaring an absconder have been completed, he said.

In the reference, the bureau nominated 13 accused including Ejaz Ahmed Khan, former secretary of Special Initiative Department of Sindh; Hassan Memon, project director/chairman of the procurement committee for the water supply scheme, Thatta; members of the committee namely Ali Akbar Abro, Aijaz Ahmed Memon, Athar Nawaz Durrani, Abdul Haleem Memon, Mohammad Farrukh Khan, Mohammad Ramzan, Mohammad Siddiq Sulemani and Zeeshan Hasan Yousaf, a private contractor Harish, CEO Omni Group Khawaja Abdul Ghani Majeed and Minahal Majeed.