Strict security arrangements are in place on the routes leading to the court's premises with blockades installed in several places.
Citizens commuting to office and schools are facing severe inconvenience.
On October 6, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had arrested the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president in the Ashiana Iqbal Housing Scheme case and presented him before an accountability court.
The anti-graft body had then been granted a 10-day physical remand of the former Punjab CM.
The authorities decided against using an armoured vehicle to shift Shehbaz to the court. He was transported in a regular vehicle, the windows of which were tinted.
Speaking to the journalists outside the accountability court, PML-N spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb said that Shehbaz had worked day and night for the development of Punjab.
"The number of security personnel deployed here [outside the court] is indicative of their fear," she said.
Corruption allegations
According to the anti-graft body, Shehbaz cancelled the contract awarded to M/s Ch A Latif & Sons for infrastructure development of Ashiana Iqbal Housing Project and awarded it to CASA Developers.
"The former Punjab chief minister misused his powers and his actions caused a huge loss to the national exchequer," the NAB prosecutor had said.
However, Shehbaz denied the allegations as "false and baseless".
Shehbaz told the court that the case against him "was made on political basis".
"I saved billions through intervention in a personal capacity," he said while rejecting NAB claims that he cause a huge loss to the national exchequer. "I saved Rs75 billion in Orange Line Train project."
"I sacrificed my sleep and health to work day and night in order to serve the nation," the former Punjab chief minister further said.
The PML-N president asserted, "I have not done corruption worth a single penny."
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