Karachi, May 18 (PTI) Pakistan's banned trio of Salman Butt, Muhammad Asif and Muhammad Aamir have been granted legal aid by the United Kingdom legal aid services commission after they requested for it to fight their case in British courts.
The Crown Prosecutor's Services (CPS) special crimes division has charged the trio and their Pakistani-British agent Mazhar Majeed with conspiracy to commit fraud and cheating during the Lords Test last year against England.
The first formal hearing of the case will be heard at the Southwark Crown court on May 20, for which Asif has already left for London while Aamir is awaiting his visa.
According to a report in 'The News', a spokesperson of the legal aid commission said that although the accused trio are foreign nationals they are being charged in an English court of law so they can apply for legal aid.