Eight SED officials indicted in NAB reference
Two former Sindh special edu dept secretaries accused of making 294 illegal appointments
KARACHI:
An accountability court indicted eight officials of the Sindh special education department on Friday in a reference filed against them accusing them of causing a loss of Rs250 million to the exchequer.
The officials include two former secretaries of special education department, namely, Muhammad Ali Shah and Noor Muhammad Laghari. The other officials who were indicted are former section officer Ashok Kumar, Muhammad Ali Khaskheli, Mushtaq Ahmed Abbasi, Khalid Suleman Khaskheli and Abbasi.
The eight defendants, accused of making illegal appointments, denied the allegations leveled against them. After they rejected the allegations, the court summoned National Accountability Bureau (NAB) witnesses on February 20.
KMC official sent to jail in illegal charged parking case
Karachi
January 3, 2021
The provincial anti-corruption court on Saturday sent an official of the Karachi Municipal Corporation to jail in judicial custody in a case pertaining to taking a bribe.
Muhammad Yaseen, deputy director of the charged parking department at the KMC, was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) in the presence of a judicial magistrate for taking a bribe of Rs10,000 a week.
According to the prosecution, the accused had demanded the bribe for the allotment of an illegal parking lot in a Korangi No. 6 market.
It added that the investigation found that the suspect used to take bribes for establishing illegal parking lots in the area without any tender or challan.