KARACHI: An accountability court on Thursday sentenced four former officials of the Karachi Development Authority to seven years in jail in a case pertaining to corruption and china-cutting of plots meant for the Lines Area Redevelopment Project.
The accused, former director of land Atta Abbas, former directors Fareed Yousufani and Farid Naseem and former director finance Shahid Umar, were found guilty of illegally bifurcating land meant for redevelopment project into plots through china-cutting, selling them to the public without conducting an auction and causing losses to the exchequer worth millions of rupees.
On Thursday, Accountability Court-II judge Aaliya Latif Unnar pronounced her judgement reserved after recording evidence and final arguments from both sides.