Three arrested for selling fake job orders

The trio are suspected of committing fraud worth Rs20 million

SUKKUR: The district and sessions court of Larkana remanded on Saturday three suspects, allegedly involved in selling fake job orders in different government departments, to two days in police custody.

According to reports, on Friday, Ghulam Fareed Soomro, a clerk in the Sukkur irrigation department, along with his son, Farhad Ali Soomro, friend, Junaid Ali Khawaja and lawyer, Abdul Sattar Soomro, went to attend the hearing of a fraud case at the district and sessions court Larkana. As soon as they reached the court, the police arrested them and took their vehicle into custody. On this, Abdul Sattar Soomro complained to the district and sessions judge about the high-handedness of the police, who called the Taluka police station SHO to explain the case.

The SHO, Khadim Hussain Magsi, said the accused, namely Ghulam Fareed Soomro, his son and Khawaja were allegedly involved in selling fake job orders, for which they would recieve between Rs300,000 to one million. He added that more than seven FIRs are registered against the accused in Sukkur and Larkana. At his request, the court granted the two-day remand.



When contacted, Taluka police station ASI Zulfiqar Ghanghro told The Express Tribune that cases have been registered against the accused at different police stations in Sukkur and Larkana on charges of fraud. According to him, two FIRS have been registered against them at A Section police station in Sukkur on the complaint of Zahid Hussain Solangi and Munawar Ali Soomro, respectively, on the charges of taking hundreds of thousands of rupees and giving fake job orders in return.

He said two other FIRS were registered at the Haideri police station in Larkana by complainants, Nadeem Ali Kalhoro and Hubdar Ali Kalhoro, for cheating them after getting the money. Similarly, two FIRS have been registered at the Bakrani police station in Larkana by complainants Hubdar Ali Kalhoro and Ghulam Shabbir Kalhoro on the same charges. ASI Ghanghro said that the latest FIR has been registered against them at the Taluka police station.

He said that the accused received payment of Rs5 million from Hubdar Kalhoro for getting job letters in different departments, including the police, irrigation and education departments. But, when the job orders proved fake, Hubdar Kalhoro contacted Ghulam Fareed Soomro and asked for a refund, which he refused. The matter was brought into the knowledge of an elder, Mushtaq Mahar, who after hearing both parties, asked the accused to return the money to the people he cheated. After that, Ghulam Fareed Soomro gave a cheque of Rs1.5 million to Hubdar, which was dishonoured by the bank, leading the man to register an FIR against him. "So far, we have unearthed fraud of Rs5 million but the accused are said to be involved in a scam of more than Rs20 million," said ASI Ghanghro.

The ASI said that the car recovered from the accused bore the monogram of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. Besides this, monograms of the Sindh Police were displayed on its windscreen, while the owner of the vehicle does not possess any documents of the vehicle, as it is a non-custom paid car. He said that after the expiry of the remand, the accused will be produced in court for further remand.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 7^th,  2015.