Accountability Court Judge Inam Ali Kalhoro on Saturday sentenced a former chairman of the Hyderabad Railway Employees Cooperative Housing Society Matloob Ahmed Khan to five years’ imprisonment in a land scam. AFP/File
HYDERABAD: Accountability Court Judge Inam Ali Kalhoro on Saturday sentenced a former chairman of the Hyderabad Railway Employees Cooperative Housing Society Matloob Ahmed Khan to five years’ imprisonment in a land scam involving Rs1.48bn losses caused to the national exchequer. The convict was also ordered to pay a fine of Rs5m.
The accused had absconded after being named in the National Accountability Bureau reference but was arrested later.
Brisk sale of sugarcane raised by convicts
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TIRUCHI Brisk sale of sugarcane raised by a group of convicts on prison lands here was witnessed ahead of the Pongal festival. With the price of sugarcane offered by the Prison Department being cheaper than the ones sold in the open market, bulk sale was noticed with some buyers coming all the way from Chennai.
The edible variety of sugarcane, known as senkarumbu, was raised on two acre land belonging to the Prison Department within the sprawling Central Prison campus by a group of 12 convicts. The harvest of sugarcane was done a few days before the Pongal festival. An official serving in the Central Prison here said 16,400 sugarcanes were sold to the public from January 12 to 14. The amount realised through the sale of sugarcane in a matter of three days was about ₹ 3 lakh. The price fixed for each sugarcane was ₹ 18 for those buying in bulk, while it was fixed at ₹18 per sugarcane for loose sal