Khawaja Asif's wife, son booked over illegal acquisition of land in Sialkot

Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) Punjab on Saturday booked the wife and son of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Khawaja Asif over an alleged illegal acquisition of land in Sialkot.

Others named in the case by ACE included former Sialkot mayor Chaudhary Toheed Akhtar and former PML-N MPA from Chunian Ahsan Raza Khan.

The so-called “champions of good governance” caused a loss worth millions of rupees to the national exchequer through sitemap and conversion fee evasion, the spokesperson of Punjab ACE said in a statement.

"The Kent Society jointly owned by Toheed Akhtar and Mrs Khawaja Asif had illegally included 281 kanals of land after the approval of first map which was illegal as per Punjab government’s private housing society schemes," the statement read.

The spokesperson said that the society had also sold out plots from the areas marked as parks, graveyards and other public amenities.

Ahsan Raza Khan had incurred huge financial loss to the public exchequer by illegally establishing a housing scheme and encroaching one acre land of the RHC Kanganpur by building a commercial market and selling its shops without any legal justification, he said.

"He (Ahsan Raza) had been selling plots in a society namely Al-Janat Town without having its maps or site approved by LDA or local municipality office," the spokesperson added.

The reference, received from Deputy Commissioner Kasur to DG ACE, recommended criminal proceedings against Ahsan Raza for causing financial loss to the public exchequer through tax and site conversion fees.