‘ACE raid brought two depts at war’

BIEK employees allegedly held hostage, chairperson files complaint to police

KARACHI: The ongoing tussle between the Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) and the Board of Intermediate Education, Karachi (BIEK) against complaints of alteration in the annual results of intermediate exams turned uglier after BIEK chairperson Akhter Ghouri held a press conference against ACE on Friday night.

Ghouri has also written an application to Noor Jahan police SHO against ACE officials, asking them to initiate legal action against ACE.



The results of intermediate pre-medical part two, scheduled to be announced on August 12, while pre-engineering results a week later, have become murky after ACE officials have taken the students’ copies, claimed Ghouri. The four-day-long search conducted by ACE has put the future of almost 98,640 science students at stake, he said, adding that “The raid has brought two government organisations at war.” He further alleged that BIEK employees have been held hostage by ACE since the last four days.

BIEK has written to the Sindh chief minister and governor, stated Ghouri, adding that ACE should have contacted him in order to get any record. “They [ACE officials] took BIEK’s computers with them and destroyed the main server due to which the BIEK’s examination record certificate and other records have been destroyed,” he informed.



“ACE officials destroyed our main server for the second time after we were able to fix it on the night of August 12,” alleged Ghouri. The destruction of the main server was cited as the reason for BIEK being unable to announce intermediate results till the end of the month.

“The BIEK junior clerk who was arrested has given the data of 102 candidates whose results were changed from his personal laptop,” ACE director Nazar Muhammad Bozdar had told The Express Tribune on Friday. ACE found evidence of banking transactions through mobile messages and estimates that BIEK was charging Rs35,000-Rs40,000 per paper for increase of marks, stated Bozdar, adding that the last transaction that ACE found was of Rs590,000.

BIEK deputy controller Muhammad Dabeer was involved in changing the results internally and all the transactions were made out to Dabeer, said Bozdar, adding that ACE was checking the results manually from answer scripts and awarding lists and then rechecking them on BIEK’s IT server.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 14^th, 2016.