Land forgery: ‘Martyr’s widow cheated out of DHA plot’

Defence-A SHO told to record widow’s statement.

LAHORE:

An additional district and sessions judge has directed the Defence-A SHO to record the statement of a widow who is seeking a case against three men for allegedly defrauding her out of property.

Petitioner Kalsoom Bibi told the court that her husband Liaqat Ali was a Pakistan Army havaldar and had been killed on duty on March 27, 2007. As a martyr’s wife, she was entitled to a plot of land and was given five marlas in DHA Phase IX, she said. On July 2011, she obtained an NOC to sell the land, she added.

But when she went to the DHA office to sell her plot on October 5, she was told that she had already sold it. She said that Imran, Anwar Bhatti and Afzal had forged her signature to prepare a sale agreement showing that she had sold the plot for Rs650,000 and had received Rs500,000.

She said she approached the SHO to lodge a complaint against the three men, but he refused. The court had, at a previous hearing, sought the SHO’s comments on the petition, but he did not submit his response. The court then issued a show cause notice, but the SHO did not turn up nor send someone else on his behalf.

Man seeks case against wife for attempted murder

An additional district and sessions judge has sought comments from the Ichhra SHO on a petition filed by a man seeking a case against his wife and her relatives for allegedly trying to kill him and for theft.

Petitioner Muhammad Ikram told the court that he had wed Ishrat Bibi on January 12, 2011. Ikram said that some time later, he started noticing that things were going missing from his house. He discovered that his wife had been stealing things, he said. Then on October 8, 2013, he said, his wife’s brother Qasim, another relative named Khalid, and two men he did not know broke into his house and tried to strangle him. He managed to escape and lock himself in a room, he said. Meanwhile, the intruders took away Rs400,000 and seven tolas of gold jewellery, he said.

Ikram said that he approached the Ichhra SHO to lodge a complaint, but the officer paid him no heed. He asked the court to direct the SHO to register a case against his wife and her relatives for attempted murder and theft.

SHO’s views sought on sports official’s plea

An additional district and sessions judge has sought comments from the Gulberg SHO for November 11 on a petition filed by a Sports Board of Punjab (SBP) official accusing the director general and other officials of theft.

Petitioner Azra Perveen, a deputy director for sports and coaching at the Directorate General of Sports, submitted that she went to her office on October 30 to find the doors unlocked and a man sitting inside claiming to have been assigned the room by SBP DG Usman Anwar and SBP Deputy Director Walayat Shah.

The petitioner said that two laptops, a mobile phone worth Rs10,000, five Rs40,000 prize bonds, four Rs750 prize bonds, her car registration documents, and important office documents were missing from the office.

She alleged that Anwar, hockey coach Amir Jalil, Directorate General of Sports Assistant Director (Admin) Nadeem Anjum, Hockey Stadium Superintendent Zahoor Ahmed and six unidentified men stole the items from her office. They had done so, she added, in response to two petitions she had filed at the Lahore High Court over her “illegal transfer” by the SBP director general.

She asked the court to direct the SHO to register a case.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 6^th, 2013.