Fraudulent ways: Two held for collecting ‘donations’

SHO Zahoor says the suspects will be presented before a court for a physical remand.

GILGIT: Police have rounded up two persons for allegedly collecting donations for a fake seminary. “We have also recovered fake stamps, letterheads and receipts from their possession,” Muhammad Zahoor, City Police Station House Officer (SHO), told reporters on Monday. Muhammad Imran was arrested in Gilgit and his accomplice in Ghizer valley, where he was collecting donations from philanthropists for the construction of Usmania Madrassa in Rahimyar Khan. The seminary does not exist, police said. The police official said the two had Rs20,000 in donations on their persons at the time of arrest. The suspects had been operating in the region for the past eight years without being noticed. SHO Zahoor said the suspects will be presented before a court for a physical remand.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 8^th, 2013.