ACE Punjab drops case against Farah Khan

• Farah Khan was accused of illegally allotting 10 acres of land in Faisalabad.
• Sources say ACE Punjab transferred case from Faisalabad to Lahore for dismissal of case.
• Additional chief secretary home issued order to dismiss case after former DG ACE Rai Manzoor Nasir declared Farah Khan innocent.

LAHORE: The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE), Punjab, has thrown out the corruption case against Farah Khan, a close friend of PTI Chairman Imran Khan's wife, Bushra Bibi.

Farah was accused of illegally allotting 10 acres of land in Faisalabad by forming a company in her and her mother’s name.

Sources say that ACE Punjab while dismissing the case, transferred the case from Faisalabad to Lahore.

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Additional chief secretary home department issued the order to dismiss the case after former director-general of ACE Rai Manzoor Nasir declared Farah innocent in the investigation.

Farah was accused of getting a 10-acre plot allotted in the Faisalabad Special Economic Zone for only Rs83 million when its actual worth was Rs600 million. The company buying the plot also had to have a value of Rs2 billion to acquire the plot.