Sports Board politics: Petitioner told to join investigation

SHO tells court that petitioner accused of same theft she blamed on others.

LAHORE: A Sports Board official who has sought a case against the director general and others for allegedly ransacking her office and theft has been accused of the same crimes by other Sports Board officials, a court was told on Wednesday.

Additional District and Sessions Judge Safdar Ali Bhatti has instructed Azra Perveen, deputy director for sports and coaching at the Directorate General of Sports, to join the investigation of the case registered against her at Gulberg police station.



The Gulberg SHO told the court on Wednesday that Perveen had been accused of stealing laptops and official documents from a Sports Board office and making death threats in a case lodged by another board official.

The court was hearing Perveen’s petition in which she has accused Sports DG Usman Anwar, hockey coach Amir Jalil, Assistant Administration Director Nadeem Anjum, Sports Board Hockey Stadium Superintendent Zahoor Ahmed and six others of ransacking her office.

The court directed the petitioner to join the investigation and directed the SHO to record Perveen’s statement.

The petitioners says that she went to her office on October 30 to find a man sitting at her desk claiming to have been assigned the room Anwar and Sports Board Deputy Director Walayat Shah.

She said that two laptops, a Rs10,000 mobile phone, several prize bonds worth thousands of rupees, her car documents, office documents and other articles were missing. She alleged that Anwar, Jalil, Anjum, Ahmed and six unidentified men had stolen the items.

Perveen said that she had been targeted because she had filed two petitions in the Lahore High Court against her “illegal transfer” by Anwar. She said that the Gulberg SHO had refused to entertain her complaint and asked the court to direct him to register a case.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 21^st, 2013.