LAHORE: An accountability Court has sent Sohail Zia Butt, a former legislator and close relative of PML-N chief Mian Nawaz Sharif, to jail on 11 days judicial remand in another reference of a Rs 70 million cooperative scam.

Earlier on Friday, an accountability court had sent Sohail Zia Butt to jail to undergo three years imprisonment awarded to him by an accountability court in absentia in 2001 under Section 31-A of the NAB Ordinance in a reference of Rs 2 million embezzlement.

On Thursday, the court had granted two-day physical remand of Sohail Zia Butt to National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Punjab, and had directed the bureau to produce the record of the reference number 31/2001.

On Saturday, The NAB authorities produced Zia before the court and sought extension to physical remand for further interrogation. However, NABís plea was rejected by the court as they did not produce the record of the case.

NAB authorities submitted that as the said reference was pending in the Lahore High Court, it was not possible for them to produce its record, adding that the courtís record was in the LHC along with prosecutionís record.

At this, the court rejected NABíS plea for extension to physical remand and sent Zia to jail for 11 days on judicial remand. The court had said that if NAB would be able to find the record of the reference during 11 days, they could consult with the court for extension to physical remand of Zia.According to case details, Zia was nabbed over the charges of defaulting on a Rs 70.2 million loan.

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