Property transfer: Singer’s petition to be heard in June

Akram Rahi says he was defrauded of over a million rupees in property sale.

LAHORE:

Additional District and Sessions Judge Malik Mushtaq Elahi has fixed June 8 for arguments on a petition filed by folk singer Akram Rahi seeking a case against five people for alleged fraud in a property transfer.

At the last hearing, the judge had sought comments from the Allama Iqbal Town station house officer. He told the court that the plot was not located in his jurisdiction.

Rahi submitted that on October 2, 2004, Muhammad Azam had agreed to sell him a five-marla plot in Sabzazar’s Block-M for Rs1,050,000. He said he had paid him Rs850,000 in advance and agreed to pay the rest after the land was transferred to him. However, he said that Azam then disappeared.

He said he found Azam in 2005, and met with him and Muhammad Afzal in a hotel. He said they both promised to transfer the plot to him within a week, but both disappeared again. He said he had also paid them the remaining Rs200,000.

Rahi said he found them again earlier this year and on May 14, 2012, a panchayat directed Azam to either return the money or transfer the plot. Even so, Azam did not do so, he said.

He told the court that Afzal had sold the plot to Shaukat Ali, who later sold it to Muhammad Kamran, who in turn sold it to Jameela Shahid.

He asked the court to direct the police to register a case against Azam, Afzal, Ali, Kamran and Shahid.

Published In The Express Tribune, June 7^th, 2012.