ISLAMABAD, Nov 28: An accountability court on Wednesday sentenced former Inspector General of Punjab, Mian Mohammad Amin, to three years rigorous imprisonment for absconding and avoiding court proceedings in a corruption case.

Judge Sakhi Hussain Bokhari of the accountability court No-III convicted the former Punjab IGP after declaring him proclaimed offender.

The convict, according to the prosecution amassed wealth disproportionate to his known source of income.

Mr Amin, who also served as the Police Foundation managing-director, had accumulated assets worth Rs145.8 million in contrast to his legitimate income of Rs1.2 million.

However, he failed to appear before the court after that non-bailable warrant was issued for his arrest on October 2.

The prosecution had filed an application on Tuesday upon which the court announced its verdict today.

Mr Amin, who had also served as Federal Investigating Agency (FIA) director-general amassed properties in different sectors of the federal capital beyond his known source of income, the prosecution said.

According to the prosecution the convict, in his capacity as the Punjab IG, accumulated assets through misuse of authority and corrupt practices during 1988 to 1999.

The reference suggested that Mr Amin owned six commercial and 20 residential plots in IB Employees Cooperative Housing Society, Islamabad, four in the E-11 NPF housing scheme, in his own and his son’s name.

He also owned another set of four plots at the National Police Foundation Housing Scheme, besides possessing a house on Nazimabad Road, Islamabad, in the name of his son Usman Amin and wife Dr Nasreen Amin.

Besides, the accused also owned 11 plots in the NPF, E-11 housing scheme in his name and his wife’s name, another plot in the same housing scheme in his wife’s name and a house on the mian double road, at F-10/3 in the name of his son.

The accused also owned different bank accounts with foreign currency in his own, son and wife’s name.