Corrupt practices: Officials accused of graft sent to central jail
Two government employees arrested for allegedly embezzling Rs2.7 million from BISP.
PESHAWAR:
Two government employees arrested for allegedly embezzling Rs2.7 million from the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) were sent to Central Prison Peshawar on judicial remand by an accountability court on Wednesday.
Postmaster Hammad and Postman Naqas, working at a post office in Dobyan, Swabi, were arrested two weeks ago by the National Accountability Bureau Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa for not distributing BISP funds among deserving people and depositing the money in their own accounts instead.
NAB K-P had received a number of complaints from the affected people after which it authorised an enquiry against the officials with the approval of the regional director general.
Following their arrest, accountability court judge Muhammad Ibrahim Khan gave Hammad and Naqas into NAB’s physical custody for 10 days initially so that the bureau could retrieve the required information from them. The remand was later extended for four more days.
The two accused were produced before Judge Muhammad Ibrahim Khan on Wednesday and the court was told that all relevant information had been extracted from them.
A court official requesting anonymity told The Express Tribune, “Both of them were sent to Central Prison Peshawar after they spent 14 days in NAB’s custody. They have filed an application to return the embezzled amount voluntarily and are awaiting its approval.”
Published in The Express Tribune, November 6th, 2014.
Two government employees arrested for allegedly embezzling Rs2.7 million from the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) were sent to Central Prison Peshawar on judicial remand by an accountability court on Wednesday.
Postmaster Hammad and Postman Naqas, working at a post office in Dobyan, Swabi, were arrested two weeks ago by the National Accountability Bureau Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa for not distributing BISP funds among deserving people and depositing the money in their own accounts instead.
NAB K-P had received a number of complaints from the affected people after which it authorised an enquiry against the officials with the approval of the regional director general.
Following their arrest, accountability court judge Muhammad Ibrahim Khan gave Hammad and Naqas into NAB’s physical custody for 10 days initially so that the bureau could retrieve the required information from them. The remand was later extended for four more days.
The two accused were produced before Judge Muhammad Ibrahim Khan on Wednesday and the court was told that all relevant information had been extracted from them.
A court official requesting anonymity told The Express Tribune, “Both of them were sent to Central Prison Peshawar after they spent 14 days in NAB’s custody. They have filed an application to return the embezzled amount voluntarily and are awaiting its approval.”
Published in The Express Tribune, November 6th, 2014.