Graft case: ACE launces probe against Adiala Jail’s ex-superintendent

Former jail clerk had alleged that Mushtaq Ahmed amassed wealth beyond declared means

RAWALPINDI: The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) has reportedly launched an investigation against a former superintendent of the Adiala Jail after an ex-employee of the jail alleged that the superintendent had amassed wealth through unfair means.

Director ACE Rawalpindi Region Muhammad Junaid Ibrahim has appointed Inspector Mumtaz Ahmed Makin as the inquiry officer in the complaint against Adiala jail’s former superintendent Mushtaq Ahmed to carry out preliminary inquiry.

Nazim Shah, former clerk of Adiala Jail, had alleged that Ahmed had amassed wealth beyond his declared sources. He also filed his complaint with the director general of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in Rawalpindi and chairman NAB against Ahmed and Inspector General of Prisons Department Farooq Nazir against their alleged corruption.

The Lahore High Court’s Rawalpindi bench too had directed the NAB chairman to take action against the complaints filed by Shah.

In a separate case filed by Shah, Justice Muhammad Tariq Abbasi of the LHC’s Rawalpindi bench told the inspector general of Punjab police to review the former jail clerk’s application for investigating an attempted murder case registered in Rawalpindi against Ahmed and the IG Prisons Department.

In his petition before the LHC, Shah claimed that the IG prisons and the former superintendent were targeting him for raising his voice against their corruption. Shah said that the two officials that first terminated his job before mounting an attack on December 6, 2014.

He added that an FIR of the case was only lodged after a court directed the Sadar Berooni police to do so on June 2, 2015. While the case was registered, Shah claimed that no progress had been made in the investigations.

Shah told the court that he had moved an application with city police officer Rawalpindi and IG Punjab to change the investigating officers but the police high ups had made no decision on his application so far.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 24^th, 2016.