Daily Times

A special court for Control of Narcotics Substances (CNS) on Wednesday extended the judicial remand of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Punjab leader Rana Sanaullah by seven day.

Former law minister of Punjab Rana Sanaullah was produced before the court in the case hearing on Wednesday. CEO of the Safe City Authority Akbar Nasir also appeared before the court.

The court after arguments of the lawyers allowed the defence counsel to visit the office of the Safe City Authority to point out the required data.

The court had approved a plea of the defence in previous hearing for preservation of the CCTV footage of the arrest of Rana Sanaullah and taking him to police station from Thokar Niaz Baig.

Moreover, the Anti-Narcotics Force has ceased the account of Rana Sanaullah, which was opened for his parliament salary.

According to sources an amount of around Rs 4.409 million was frozen in the account. In a previous hearing of the case the court had dismissed a bail plea of Rana Sanaullah. The court, however, approved the bail of five co-accused in the case. The ANF had submitted challan against PML-N leader in case pertaining to alleged recovery of drugs from his car. Rana Sanaullah and six other suspects were named in the case charge-sheet.

Meanwhile, Rana Sanaullah filed a petition in the Lahore High Court (LHC), seeking bail in the drug case.

“The government has arrested me in fake drug case over criticising its policies,” Rana Sanaullah alleged in his petition submitted in the LHC.

Furthermore, he said, the delay of lodging of the FIR against him in the case raises serious questions. He pleaded the court to order his release on the bail in the case.