RAWALPINDI: Former Federal Minister for Religious Affairs, Hamid Saeed Kazmi has been released after he was granted bail by a trial court on Monday.
The Supreme Court taking suo moto notice had ordered the FIA to register a corruption case in the arrangements of Hajj-2010.
The FIA had nominated Kazmi, and other officials from the Religious Affairs Ministry in the case and they had been arrested and were being tried in the Rawalpindi Special Judge Central Court.
Hamid Saeed Kazmi was arrested from outside the court room in March 2011 immediately after his interim bail was vacated. Later, his bail petition was filed in the same trial court.
The court after more than a year today approved his bail petition and ordered for his release against securities of Rs100,000.
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