Bulletins 1200 30th June 2018
- 6 years ago
KARACHI: Sharjeel Memon, former information minister of Sindh is under trial for corruption of amount worth Rs 5 billion. It is observed that he is still staying at a private hospital, and it’s been more than a month now.
He is under trial due to deep corruption, but still he has been restricted with sub jail at the VIP room of a private hospital related to prolonged hospitalization.
These orders came from former chief minister Murad Ali Shah who emphasis the further hospitalization as a private jail towards the end of his government’s tenure in Sindh.
Memon and eleven others were indicted in the Rs5.76 billion corruption reference by NAB in October 2017 prior to his transfer from jail to a hospital on court’s orders.
Memon was then shifted from Jinnah Hospital to the VIP ward of a private hospital in Karachi’s Clifton area on May 18 after he was prescribed to undergo hydrotherapy.
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The chief justice of Pakistan had taken a suo motu notice of his transfer to hospital from prison later.
He is under trial due to deep corruption, but still he has been restricted with sub jail at the VIP room of a private hospital related to prolonged hospitalization.
These orders came from former chief minister Murad Ali Shah who emphasis the further hospitalization as a private jail towards the end of his government’s tenure in Sindh.
Memon and eleven others were indicted in the Rs5.76 billion corruption reference by NAB in October 2017 prior to his transfer from jail to a hospital on court’s orders.
Memon was then shifted from Jinnah Hospital to the VIP ward of a private hospital in Karachi’s Clifton area on May 18 after he was prescribed to undergo hydrotherapy.
ALSO READ: CJP takes notice of shifting of Sharjeel Memon from prison to hospital
The chief justice of Pakistan had taken a suo motu notice of his transfer to hospital from prison later.