Shahid Siddiqui dies of cardiac attack ahead of NAB’s hearing in Karachi Fishery corruption case
KARACHI: Karachi Fishery’s employee Shahid Siddiqui, who was arrested along with former chairperson fishery Nisar Morayi on grounds of a corruption reference, died on Thursday ahead of National Accountability Court’s (NAB) hearing.Siddiqui, finance manager of Karachi Fishermen Cooperative Society, was arrested two days before the NAB’s accountability hearing where the Fishery’s staff were summoned on Thursday.According to DIG Nasir Aftab, Siddiqui was held captive in the Central Jail along with former chairperson fishery Nisar Morai where on the urgency of a cardiac attack Siddiqui was rushed to Agha Khan, to which the hospital staff had insisted that he be admitted.Siddiqui, a resident of Bahria Town, refused to get admitted in the private hospital due to high charges and was taken back to the jail instead of being admitted to a government hospital.Siddiqui succumbed to another heart stroke on Thursday, hours prior to NAB’s hearing and was allegedly declared dead by in-jail hospital authorities.The prison’s authorities stated that the body was being shifted to Jinnah hospital after the magistrate’s legal trial.Siddiqui, along with other Fishery employees were arrested for facilitating former chairperson fishery Nisar Morai in the corruption.
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