The Lahore High Court on Friday directed the government to withdraw the order of issuing red warrants of former Evacuee Trust Property Board Chairman Asif Hashmi in a corruption case. The court told Petitioner Hashmi to appear in a trial court in a month. Asif Hashmi, who is now in Dubai, is accused of selling the board 1,946 Kanal land to the Defence Housing Authority on 25 percent exemption basis in 2009, though the same land was recommended by former Chairman Zulfiqar Ali Khan on 33 percent exemption basis in 2001.
The land was situated in Dera Chahal, Lidher and Mota and difference of eight percent caused loss of Rs 2 billion while another 225 Kanals was evacuated from the authority which was occupied in connivance with ETPB officials and Hashmi team.