Sharjeel Inam Memon, the leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and the minister of information for Sindh, will now have his name permanently removed from the exit control list (ECL).
According to information, a two-member bench presided over by Justice Agha, accepted Sharjeel Inam Memon’s review plea in connection with a corruption reference involving Rs6 billion that the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) filed in 2016.
Memon’s lawyer mentioned at the hearing that the court had ordered that while granted bail, his client’s name be added to the ECL. He added, “The Information Minister of Sindh has to request permission repeatedly to leave the country.
The lawyer stated that his client was frequently going before the trial court to ask for the court to take his name off the ECL. The request was likewise not met with opposition by the NAB prosecutor.
The SHC two-member bench accepted the minister’s review petition following the hearing of the arguments and ordered that Sharjeel Memon’s name should be removed from the ECL.
For allegedly involved in corruption from 2013 to 2015 in awarding advertisements for provincial government’s awareness campaigns in electronic media, the National Accountability Bureau had filed a reference against the current provincial information minister, deputy directors of the Sindh information department Mansoor Ahmed Rajput, Mohammed Yousuf Kaboro, and others in 2016.
