Hanky panky: Police drop charges against Anjum Aqeel after two months
The complainant said he was not informed.
ISLAMABAD:
The Golra police dropped charges against MNA Anjum Aqeel of fraudulently depriving a retired police officer from a residential plot in National Police Foundation (NPF).
The case was registered two months ago, but the Golra police, suddenly on Saturday, rejected the complainants claim that Aqeel is involved in the case.
The police said that the matter is of civil nature and does not merit a police case; therefore, the FIR against Aqeel is not legal and has been quashed. However, the complainant Raja Muhammad Ayub Khan, a retired Superintendent of Police (SHO), said he was not informed of the development.
“This is news for me. The police have not informed me that they have dropped the charges. How can they do this?” said Ayub.
When asked why the police took almost two months to determine that it was not a criminal matter, the Golra police station SHO Qasim Khan Niazi refused to comment. “I will not tell anything [about the case],” he said.
Ayub filed an application in October this year with the Golra police for registration of an FIR against Aqeel alleging him of seizing his residential plot in NPF through fraud and forgery.
In the FIR, Ayub had stated, “The managing director of the NPF and the officers in connivance with Anjum Aqeel Khan and Tahir Mehmood Khan signed an agreement ... by declaring a piece of land, including my plot, as commercial and selling it off.”
He said in April this year the management of NPF called him to discuss certain problems with his property. They told him that his plot was transferred to Masroor Khan and he should negotiate the price with him. However, Ayub maintained this was done without his consent. On this, he approached the police and registered the FIR.
Ayub maintained he had proper legal documents to prove his ownership of the property. The FIR was registered after he showed the police the property documents.
Ayub is a member of NPF since June 1991. His membership number is 2379 and he was allotted a plot (number 442) measuring 50x90 yards.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 12th, 2011.
The Golra police dropped charges against MNA Anjum Aqeel of fraudulently depriving a retired police officer from a residential plot in National Police Foundation (NPF).
The case was registered two months ago, but the Golra police, suddenly on Saturday, rejected the complainants claim that Aqeel is involved in the case.
The police said that the matter is of civil nature and does not merit a police case; therefore, the FIR against Aqeel is not legal and has been quashed. However, the complainant Raja Muhammad Ayub Khan, a retired Superintendent of Police (SHO), said he was not informed of the development.
“This is news for me. The police have not informed me that they have dropped the charges. How can they do this?” said Ayub.
When asked why the police took almost two months to determine that it was not a criminal matter, the Golra police station SHO Qasim Khan Niazi refused to comment. “I will not tell anything [about the case],” he said.
Ayub filed an application in October this year with the Golra police for registration of an FIR against Aqeel alleging him of seizing his residential plot in NPF through fraud and forgery.
In the FIR, Ayub had stated, “The managing director of the NPF and the officers in connivance with Anjum Aqeel Khan and Tahir Mehmood Khan signed an agreement ... by declaring a piece of land, including my plot, as commercial and selling it off.”
He said in April this year the management of NPF called him to discuss certain problems with his property. They told him that his plot was transferred to Masroor Khan and he should negotiate the price with him. However, Ayub maintained this was done without his consent. On this, he approached the police and registered the FIR.
Ayub maintained he had proper legal documents to prove his ownership of the property. The FIR was registered after he showed the police the property documents.
Ayub is a member of NPF since June 1991. His membership number is 2379 and he was allotted a plot (number 442) measuring 50x90 yards.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 12th, 2011.