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Accepting Bribes: Mayor’s personal assistant arrested

The admin officer, Altaf Baig, was apprehended in a judicial raid from the HMC office

Our Correspondent November 30, 2016

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PHOTO: EXPRESS

HYDERABAD: The Sindh Anti-Corruption Establishment on Wednesday arrested the personal assistant of Hyderabad Municipal Corporation’s (HMC) mayor, Syed Tayyab Hussain, on charges of accepting bribes.

The admin officer, Altaf Baig, was apprehended in a judicial raid from the HMC office.

He allegedly sought a Rs70,000 bribe from a woman for her appointment as a nurse.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 1^st, 2016.

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