LAHORE – A Pakistan Muslim League-N’s lawmaker was arrested from the Supreme Court’s Lahore registry premises Tuesday over his alleged involvement in a case of illegal occupation of land in the Punjab capital.
MNA Afzal Nadeem Khokhar faces detention was arrested for illegally taking into possession 34 marla land of a citizen, Tariq Mahmood, a few years back.
A first information report registered with Lahore’s Nawab Town police by British resident Muhammad Ali Zafar said that a few years earlier, he had bought the said land in the Sultanpura area.
The then-owner Tariq Mahmood had demarcated the land in his presence, Zafar stated in the FIR, adding that Khokhar Palace, the MNA’s residence, had since been built on his land.
On December 15, the Supreme Court of Pakistan had issued orders to put names of Afzal Khokhar and his brother Saiful Malook Khokhar on the Exit Control List. However, during Tuesday’s hearing, the apex court rejected the prosecutor’s plea to put the names of Khokhar brothers on the ECL.
The orders were issued by a two-member bench, headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar, at the Lahore registry on the suo motu notice of as many as 22 encroachments on land owned by Lahore Development Authority in different parts of Lahore.
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The chief justice has also directed the Khokhar brothers to submit their property documents before the court within seven days.
The SC has constituted a joint team of Anti-Corruption Board, Board of Revenue, Lahore Development Authority (LDA) and the police, which will prepare and submit a report on Khokhars’ involvement in land grabbing.
