LARKANA, Oct 16: The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) has virtually stopped registering fresh cases throughout Sindh province because the posts of commissioners and deputy commissioners stood abolished who had been heading Anti-Corruption Committees II and III respectively entrusted to grant permissions for lodging FIRs.

With the introduction of devolution of power plan no alternative platform was suggested or provided to handle corruption cases by the ACE, the sources said. Thousands of cases of corruption throughout the province await permission from the competent authority after the abolition of the posts of commissioners and deputy commissioners.

“We can only investigate cases,” said a source in ACE adding that this led to the piling up of cases almost in all the anti-corruption circle offices in Sindh province.

Only in Larkana district around 100 cases are in files waiting for permission to register FIRs, the sources disclosed.

The work is blocked in ACE everywhere in the province. It all requires early amendment in the anti-corruption laws for without amendment in AC rules and laws the work could not take off, a source in the ACE told this scribe on Tuesday. And this amendment may come through ordinance, he said.