F.P Report
Karachi: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Karachi has approved seven new investigations. The investigations will be conducted against six revenue officials and an impersonator for their alleged involvement in corruption and misuse of authority.
The references were approved at a regional board meeting (RBM) which was held at the NAB office Karachi on Thursday.
NAB Karachi director general chaired the meeting and the meeting was attended by directors Investigation Wings and their respective investigation teams.
On the basis of an inquiry, six separate investigations were authorized against the officers of the Revenue Department for keeping fake and forged entries in the Revenue record, with respect to Deh Songal, Scheme-33, Karachi, which involve 75-0 acres of precious government land.
The revenue officials, prima facie, in connivance with private persons, maintained the bogus entries with respect to state land in order to illegally favor certain private individuals, by showing the entries as maintained in 1970’s, by way of forgery.
After completing inquiry, the case was authorized into investigation against the revenue authorities of Hyderabad, on the charges established in inquiry, regarding illegal sale of amenity plot, which was a municipal playground located at a main road of Hyderabad.
The revenue officials in connivance with two private persons, identified as Allah Dino Khokhar and Allahuddin Samoo, managed the sale of 8 acres of amenity plot to the aforementioned persons, on the basis of bogus revenue documents. According to details, the case was recommended to NAB HQ, Islamabad, for conversion into investigation against one Shehzad Yousuf and his accomplices on the charges of cheating public at large. The accused, Shehzad Yousuf, was arrested and remanded to NAB Karachi in March this years and is under the custody of NAB Karachi.
The accused had been impersonating and falsely presenting himself as Assistant Director of NAB under various names and used to extort money from various persons, on the false promise of getting them relief in bogus NAB cases, thus has blackmailed several innocent persons and the government officials, particularly of Local Government Departments of Punjab and Sindh. Several complainants have recorded their statements and submitted their claims of Rs.13 million defrauded by the accused. The NAB DG said that under the table guidance of NAB chairman Justice Javed Iqbal, the NAB reiterates its resolve to proceed against the corrupt elements and deal with them with an iron hand. He said that the policy of “Accountability for All” given by the chairman is a source of inspiration and a beacon light of guidance, according to which NAB would undertake investigative cases against all the corrupt elements, without any discrimination.
