ISLAMABAD: Islamabad High Court (IHC) has stopped the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) from putting former Finance Minister Ishaq Dar’s house on auction.
A two-member bench, comprising Chief Justice Athar Minallah and Justice Lubna Saleem Pervaiz, announced the verdict on Tuesday.
The court has suspended an accountability court’s November 7, 2019 verdict in which it rejected the plea of Dar’s wife.
The court has issued notice to NAB and asked for a reply by February 13.
Advocate Qazi Misbah appeared on the petitioner’s behalf. He said that Ishaq Dar had gifted the house in Lahore’s Gulberg to his wife on February 14, 1989.
NAB had seized the house and its custody was given to the Punjab government, the lawyer told the court.
On October 2, 2019 an accountability court ordered the auction of Dar’s assets and confiscation of his bank accounts. The step was taken because he has been absconding in a corruption case. He went to London to seek medical treatment and still hasn’t returned, NAB had told the court.
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