Lahore: The caretaker cabinet of Punjab suspended the sentence of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in the Al-Azizia Steel Mills corruption case.
The sentence was suspended under Section 401 of the Criminal Procedural Code. The approval was given through a circulation summary.
Under Section 401 of the Criminal Procedural Code, the government holds the power to suspend the punishment of an offender.
Talking to a private news channel, the caretaker provincial minister Aamir Mir said that the Punjab government suspended the punishment under the constitutional powers of Section 401 of CRP, we have the power to suspend the punishment and not to terminate it. The PML-N supremo had requested for his sentence to be suspended by the Punjab cabinet, Mir said
“The final decision of the case will be taken by the court itself,” he added.
The development comes on the day when Nawaz is scheduled to attend multiple hearings at an accountability court at the Federal Judicial Complex (FJC) and the Islamabad High Court (IHC).
Nawaz Sharif’s sentence was also suspended under the same law on medical grounds before he left for London in 2019 by the then PTI government.
It should be noted that Nawaz was sentenced by an accountability court in both the Avenfield and Al-Azizia Steel Mills references.
