LAHORE: A Lahore High Court double bench on Monday issued notices to National Accountability Bureau (NAB) officials to submit a comprehensive reply on a plea bargain with the owner of the Eden Housing Scheme.

The affected people of the Eden Housing Scheme filed a petition in the court that the NAB authorities had gone into a plea bargain with the owner of the scheme and was paying them less amount and also given a time of three years.

Advocate Zubair Khalid represented the affected people in the court and said that the NAB authorities had not properly valued the price of the land. During the NAB reference, the land was valued worth Rs27 billion and a Rs16 billion plea bargain was allowed.

He also said that the af fectees were asked to wait for three years to get their money back from the owner of the scheme. He demanded that as the land and money were available, the affectees should be given full payment and there should not be a delay in payments.

The head of the double bench Justice Amjad Rasheed issued notices to the NAB authorities and adjourned the hearing till Aug 15. Late Dr Muhammad Amjad, his sons Murtaza, who is the son-in-law of former chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, Mustafa, and wife Anjum were nominated as accused in the reference. Dr Amjad passed away in August 2021 weeks af ter returning to the country from Canada.