Former premier and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz supremo Nawaz Sharif sought relief from Lahore’s accountability court in the plots allotment case under the NAB Amendment Ordinance 22.

The PML-N supremo filed a petition in an accountability court challenging the court decision to declare him proclaimed offender in the plot allotment case and seeking his acquittal.

The former premier in his petition challenged the jurisdiction of the accountability court arguing that the NAB has no power to proceed in a case valued less than Rs500 million and demanded that the court should restore his confiscated assets and acquit him in the case as the court had already acquitted three accused in the case.

The petitioner demanded the court to rescind the case against the PML-N supremo, besides ordering to restore his confiscated property and issue order for his acquittal in the reference.

In November 2020, an accountability court in Lahore had declared former prime minister Nawaz an absconder and had issued non-bailable arrest warrants against him in an illegal plot allotment case.