Justice Siddiqui accepted an unconditional apology tendered by Muhammad Laiq Yousafzai for shifting responsibility on the clerk. PHOTO: FILE
ISLAMABAD:
The Capital Development Authority (CDA) on Tuesday informed the Islamabad High Court (IHC) that three officials from the authority were involved in the illegal transfer of a kiosk in Sector F-7 .
On February 19, IHC judge Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui rejected a report submitted by CDA Director, Administration, Muhammad Laiq Yousafzai holding a retired clerk responsible for the transfer. The judge had directed CDA Chairman Tahir Shahbaz to submit a report on February 26.
While submitting the fresh inquiry report on the transfer of a kiosk to Khalid Malik, the brother of Interior Minister Rehman Malik, the CDA informed the court that three officials were involved.
According to an inquiry conducted by CDA Estate Management Member Shaista Sohail, Municipal Administration Deputy Director Mansoor Ali Khan, former DMA assistant director Kamran Bakht, who is currently an officer on special duty (OSD), and former DMA assistant Malik Jamil Ahmed, who agreed to a plea bargain with the National Accountability Bureau last year in an unrelated multimillion rupee embezzlement case, were declared responsible.
During the course of hearing on Tuesday, Justice Siddiqui accepted an unconditional apology tendered by Muhammad Laiq Yousafzai for shifting responsibility on the clerk.
Faizabad stalls allotment
Meanwhile, Justice Siddiqui directed the CDA chairman to submit an inquiry report on 450 stalls in Faizabad that were allegedly allotted illegally.
Last year, the same bench had suspended the allotment of 450 kiosks at Faizabad. The court passed the order in response to a petition moved by Hawkers and Stall Holders Action Committee (SHAC) Faizabad.
During the course of hearing, Advocate Muhammad Ashraf argued on behalf of SHAC that Senate Chairman Nayar Hussain Bokhari was behind the allotment.
On this, Justice Siddiqui observed that CDA seems to be a place where everyone is busy making money while ruining the civic agency.
Meanwhile, CDA counsel Jawad Nazir requested the court to give him more time and claimed that the CDA chairman is personally conducting the inquiry.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 27th, 2013.
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