Illegal assets: NAB obtains custody of former forest officer

Muqarab Shah was handcuffed only a day earlier

PESHAWAR: An accountability court gave the nod to a 10-day physical custody of former divisional forest officer held for accumulating assets illegally.

Special Prosecutor Daniyal Asad Chamkani produced the accused Muqarab Shah before the court of judge Muhammad Ibrahim Khan on Friday. Shah was handcuffed only a day earlier by National Accountability Bureau Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.

During the proceedings, Chamkani told the court that NAB is looking into Shah’s assets and needs further custody to obtain all the required information. He said that the accused misused authority when he was serving as DFO and accumulated assets worth millions of rupees through illegal sources, which is an offence under the National Accountability Ordinance, 1999.



During the enquiry it was revealed that Shah owns two houses, each built on 10 marla plots, in Paharipura, a 10-marla plot in Hayatabad Phase-VI and two 10 and 9-marla plots in Moza Kambo in the provincial capital, land measuring 61 kanals and 17 marlas in Moza Dhedan, Haripur and a plot measuring four kanals in Moza Azakhel Bala, Nowshera.

Furthermore, Shah also has two plots measuring two kanals each in Moza Mera Khandar, Nowshera, 7 kanals of land in Moza Tanan, Qalandarabad and 3 plots measuring 19 marlas, 16 marlas and 7 marlas respectively in Abbottabad to his name.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 12^th,  2015.