Captain (retd) Safdar/File photo

ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif?s son-in-law Captain (retd) Safdar on Thursday approached the Islamabad High Court challenging his impending indictment in a corruption reference.

Capt (retd) Safdar, through his counsel, filed a petition in IHC requesting it to stop the accountability court from indicting him on October 13 (tomorrow).

In his petition, he stated that according to law a period of seven days is allowed before indictment.

Nawaz, his daughter Maryam, and son-in-law MNA Capt (retd) Safdar are expected to be indicted by the accountability court hearing corruption cases against them on Friday.

At the last hearing, on October 9, the accountability court approved the bail of Maryam and Safdar after they appeared in court.

Nawaz to return from London tonight, appear in court tomorrow: sources

The accountability court is expected to indict Nawaz, Maryam and Safdar tomorrow

Judge Mohammad Bashir also approved the National Accountability Bureau's (NAB) plea to declare Nawaz's sons, Hasan and Hussain, proclaimed offenders and separated their proceedings in the three references filed against them. Their non-bailable arrest warrants, issued at the last hearing on October 2, remain in effect.

The accountability court is hearing a total of three corruption cases against the Sharif family filed by NAB in light of the Supreme Court's judgment in the Panama Papers case.

At the last hearing, the court also approved Maryam and Safdar's bail in the Avenfiled properties case and ordered them to submit surety bonds worth Rs5 million each.

Earlier today, IHC dismissed Finance Minister Ishaq Dar's petitions challenging his indictment and trial by the accountability court hearing a corruption reference against him.

During today's hearing, the court observed that the petitioner should take up any objections with the monitoring judge of the Supreme Court, which had ordered the corruption reference to be filed against Dar for owning assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.