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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. ....
Karachi April 9, 2021 An accountability court on Thursday sentenced four former officials of the Karachi Development Authority to seven years in prison in a case pertaining to corruption and China-cutting in the Lyari Expressway Resettlement Project. Accountability Court-II judge Aaliya Latif Unar found former KDA directors Atta Abbad, Fareed Yousufani, Farid Naseem and Shahid Umer guilty of illegally bifurcating the land meant for the redevelopment project into plots through China-cutting and selling them to the public without conducting an auction and causing losses to the exchequer worth millions of rupees. The judge noted that the prosecution had successfully proved the charges against the defendants, while they could not bring on record any evidence in support of their claim of not-guilty. A fine of Rs5 million each was also imposed on them. ....