Two officials including in-charge of Computerised Land Record Centre (CLRC) Attock have been arrested for their alleged involvement in illegal transfer of land owned by a comatose retired school teacher.
Saeed Ahmad Khan Circle Officer Anti Corruption Establishment (ACE) Attock informed media that Muhammad Iqbal an elderly man lodged his complaint with Deputy Commissioner Attock on August 20 this year about the illegal transfer of land of his deceased wife Nasim Akhtar.
Iqbal said that Akhtar was suffering from diabetes and high-blood pressure due to which she had suffered a stroke in May 2019 and went in to a coma. During Akhtar’s sickness, her relatives Nusrat Naheed and Faiza Riaz took care of her.
However, the two women got Akhtar’s thumb prints on legal papers and got her property transferred illegally. Iqbal asserted that being a retired teacher, why would Akhtar only affix thumb prints when she could sign her name.
On Iqbal’s complaint, the DC marked the inquiry to Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) Attock which revealed that Nusrat Naheed along with her daughter Faiza Riaz - who was sister of the deceased teacher managed to transfer the land of Akhtar in the name of her sister and daughter fraudulently with the connivance of two officials of CLRC in year 2019.
It was also alleged that the property falls in the urban area and the same was to be transferred through registered deeds but mutations were entered and sanctioned illegally and less fees were charged causing loss to state exchequer.
Khan said that after around four months long probe in to the case, it was proved that both accused Nusrat Naheed and Faiza Riaz acted with the connivance of Assistant Director Land Record (ADLR) Nimra MAsood and Service Center Official (SCO) Ehtisham Bashir.
He said that consequent upon completion of probe both were found guilty, a case was registered against them under section 420, 468, 471 of PPC and 5/2/47 PCA with Attock ACE police station and both have been arrested and sent behind the bars on Friday.
Provincial Minister for Revenue Col(r) Muhammad Anwar Khan during his recent visit to Attock while talking to media had very clearly said that the incumbent government has zero tolerance for corrupt officials and those proven guilty in any corruption case will have to face the music .
Published in The Express Tribune, November 15th, 2020.
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