Police lose judicial record of fraud case

Sub inspector tells judge police record of case also tampered with.


Express November 24, 2011

LAHORE:


An additional district and sessions judge on Thursday slammed police officials for losing the judicial record of a man accused of cheque fraud who has already been locked up for three-and-a-half months.


Judge Sana Khan Attique directed the capital city police officer (CCPO) to take disciplinary action against the police officials responsible for losing the judicial record of the case, and directed the Iqbal Town station house officer (SHO) to find the missing files. The judge granted bail to the accused, Sohail Zafar, for Rs100,000.

The judge had summoned the Iqbal Town SHO with the record at the previous hearing, but he did not turn up.

Sub Inspector Tariq Javed appeared before the court on Thursday.

The sub inspector told the court that the police record of the case had been tampered with, as some of the supplementary statements contained his fake signature. He said he did not know where the judicial record was.

Zafar is accused of writing three cheques totalling Rs1,120,000 that later bounced. Complainant Faheem Sarwar lodged a complaint with the police, saying that Zafar owed him the money for a plot he had sold him.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 25th, 2011.

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