Court again issues non-bailable arrest warrant of Rana Sanaullah in corruption case
The Rawalpindi’s Civil Court on Monday rejected the Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) Punjab’s plea to declare Federal Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah as ‘proclaimed offender’ and once again issued a non-bailable arrest warrant of him in corruption case.
Notably, The Civil Court of Rawalpindi had issued a non-bailable arrest warrant for the Interior Minister two days ago (Saturday).
According to the order issued by Senior Civil Judge Ghulam Akbar, Rana Sanaullah was nominated in the First Information Report (FIR) and his arrest was necessary in the case.
The order said that ‘the record shows that the claim of the investigating office is correct and accordingly the non-bailable arrest warrant of Rana Sanaullah is issued’.
Today, the anti-corruption establishment team reached the court, where Senior Civil Judge Rawalpindi Ghulam Akbar heard the petition to declare Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah as a proclaimed offender.
The ACE team requested the court to declare Rana Sanaullah as a proclaimed offender, on which the court rejected the request and remarked that the interior minister cannot be declared proclaimed offender yet.
Meanwhile, the court ordered the arrest and production of Rana Sanaullah once again, on which the ACE team left Islamabad police station with one more team.
“If the Islamabad Police cooperated with us, we would go to the Interior Ministry for arrest,” the ACE official said.
The case:
The ACE has alleged that the interior minister purchased two plots in Bismillah Housing Scheme located in Kallar Kahar area at a price lower than the scheduled rate. It further claimed that both the plots were given to Sanaullah as a bribe.
The court documents show that an FIR No 20/19 under Sections 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 467 (forgery of valuable security, will, etc.,) 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), 471 (using as genuine a forged document), and 109 (punishment of abetment) read with Section 5(2) (criminal misconduct) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947, was registered against the minister.
