Corruption: Police not serious in probing BZU registrar, alleges faculty member
Says registrar has threatened him over a proposed inquiry into corruption.
He said he had proposed an inquiry into the matter and also recommended that the staff be sent to the motorway police for a driving test. PHOTO:FILE
MULTAN:
A Bahauddin Zakariya University faculty member is complaining that the police are reluctant to take action on his complaint against the university registrar and three other employees.
Talking to The Express Tribune, Prof Shaukat Malik, who is also the director of the Institute of Banking and Commerce at the university, said he was beaten up about a month ago and threatened to stop proceeding with an inquiry into the qualifications of driving staff at the university. He said he believed the men had been sent by registrar Malik Munir, and Malik Safdar, president of the Workers Welfare Board, and two other WWB members. “I got an FIR registered against them on March 3rd. It has been almost a month. The police are yet to take action,” he added.
Malik, who was then the chairman of the university’s Transportation Committee, said he had suspected that the drivers were embezzling money by overstating fuel consumption. He said he had proposed an inquiry into the matter and also recommended that the staff be sent to the motorway police for a driving test.
However, he said, the registrar and the WWB chairman, resisted the proposal. “I started receiving death threats and when I refused to shelve the plan they ordered the March 3 attack,” he said.
He said he had resigned from the post of the Transportation Committee chairman following the death of a university student who was run over by a bus driver on the campus on March 11. Ghulam Dastagir, who is currently under police investigation for the fatal accident, and two other drivers were sacked following a university inquiry into the accident. The licences of the two other drivers, Shahid Hussain and Muhammad Aslam, were found to be fake.
Alpa SHO Rai Muhammad Akram dismissed the allegation that police were not serious in investigating the four university officials mentioned in the FIR. He said the police were monitoring the suspects and had stopped them from leaving the district until investigations were complete. He added that the suspects had on Thursday obtained pre-arrest bails from a court. He said the court had asked them to re-appear on April 8th.
Registrar Malik Munir and his brother Malik Safdar both denied that they had ordered any attack against the complainant. They said the allegations were baseless. The FIR against the registrar, his brother and two other WWB officials has been registered under Sections 186 (extortion), 337 H2 (firing) and 506-B (armed attack and threat to life) of the PPC.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 5th, 2015.
A Bahauddin Zakariya University faculty member is complaining that the police are reluctant to take action on his complaint against the university registrar and three other employees.
Talking to The Express Tribune, Prof Shaukat Malik, who is also the director of the Institute of Banking and Commerce at the university, said he was beaten up about a month ago and threatened to stop proceeding with an inquiry into the qualifications of driving staff at the university. He said he believed the men had been sent by registrar Malik Munir, and Malik Safdar, president of the Workers Welfare Board, and two other WWB members. “I got an FIR registered against them on March 3rd. It has been almost a month. The police are yet to take action,” he added.
Malik, who was then the chairman of the university’s Transportation Committee, said he had suspected that the drivers were embezzling money by overstating fuel consumption. He said he had proposed an inquiry into the matter and also recommended that the staff be sent to the motorway police for a driving test.
However, he said, the registrar and the WWB chairman, resisted the proposal. “I started receiving death threats and when I refused to shelve the plan they ordered the March 3 attack,” he said.
He said he had resigned from the post of the Transportation Committee chairman following the death of a university student who was run over by a bus driver on the campus on March 11. Ghulam Dastagir, who is currently under police investigation for the fatal accident, and two other drivers were sacked following a university inquiry into the accident. The licences of the two other drivers, Shahid Hussain and Muhammad Aslam, were found to be fake.
Alpa SHO Rai Muhammad Akram dismissed the allegation that police were not serious in investigating the four university officials mentioned in the FIR. He said the police were monitoring the suspects and had stopped them from leaving the district until investigations were complete. He added that the suspects had on Thursday obtained pre-arrest bails from a court. He said the court had asked them to re-appear on April 8th.
Registrar Malik Munir and his brother Malik Safdar both denied that they had ordered any attack against the complainant. They said the allegations were baseless. The FIR against the registrar, his brother and two other WWB officials has been registered under Sections 186 (extortion), 337 H2 (firing) and 506-B (armed attack and threat to life) of the PPC.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 5th, 2015.