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Fraud case: SC adjourns hearing till Feb 10

The Supreme court on Friday adjourns the hearing of Khurram Rasool fruad case till February 2, Aaj news reported.

During the proceedings today, chief justice remarked that it has became a high profile case and can linked to important matters.

The former media coordinator of Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani, Khurram Rasool, has been presented before the Supreme Court today (Friday).

Earlier, Khurram Rasool surrendered himself to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on early Friday morning.

The three-Judge bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice Tariq Parvez, in its order also warned Director General FIA Tahseen Anwar Shah to comply with its directive, otherwise, failure would have serious legal consequences.

An accountability court in Rawalpindi sentenced Mian Khurram Rasool, to four-year imprisonment on Thursday and declared him an absconder in a Rs71 million bank fraud case.