Bribery trial: Fake appointment records seized in police raid

It is suspected that the education dept and the police all had a hand in issuing orders.

HYDERABAD: An anti-corruption police squad seized records of ‘fake’ appointment orders after raiding the Hyderabad education director’s office, on Thursday.

The team was led by SI Shabeer Memon, on the orders of the Hyderabad deputy director of the anti-corruption police, Kanbho Khan Marri. The raid was conducted without the presence of a magistrate.

Claims made

Sources told the Sindh Express that around Rs1 million was paid for the position of a junior school teacher, Rs0.5 million for a primary school teacher and Rs250,000 for being appointed as a peon.

Around 3,000 orders were given to the candidates, but most of them were bogus as candidates complained that they were not given them even after they had paid huge bribes to the education department workers

It was suspected that the director of education, Shamsuddin Dal, the deputy director, Iqbal Memon, accountant Farooque Memon, Superintendent Ghulam Hussain Soomro and the Pakistan Peoples Party district leaders were involved in the issuing of such bogus orders.

Sources claimed that the team was trying to hide Soomro’s role in this and was placing all the blame on the education department workers.

Razia Laghari, the principal of a girls school, in her press conference a while back claimed that she had bribed officials for four appointments, but that the orders were fake and that she was not given her money back. She added that she had complained to the authorities about the issue but nothing had been done about it.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 24^th, 2012.