ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s former information minister Chaudhry Fawad Hussain managed to secure a post-arrest bail from an accountability court in Rawalpindi on Monday in a case in which he was arrested for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs5 million.
Hussain, who was a close aide of ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan before he announced to part ways from Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in May, was taken into custody in November.
His lawyer and brother, Faisal Chaudhry, announced the court’s decision in a social media post earlier in the day.
“By the grace of God, the anti-corruption court in Rawalpindi has approved Fawad Chaudhry’s bail in a false and baseless case,” he wrote on X. “The court ordered the deposit of surety bonds amounting to Rs200,000.”
According to Geo News, he said that Hussain would contest the upcoming general elections in February while speaking to the media outside the court.
Earlier, the judge said Hussain could be released after securing the bail if he was not wanted in another case.
However, the former information minister continues to remain in detention in a separate case in which he is interrogated by the National Accountability Bureau.
