November 15, 2002	Friday	Ramazan 9, 1423

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LARKANA, Nov 14: Ten revenue officials, including three Mukhtiarkars, will be prosecuted on corruption charges in the special court for anti-corruption after a cue is given by the Anti-Corruption Committee-II.

The circle officer (CO), Larkana, Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE), A. R. Arijo, told this correspondent on Thursday that the district coordination officer (DCO), Noor Ali Khan, chaired the ACC-II meeting that took stock of 69 cases pertaining to the police, health, revenue, irrigation, and excise departments.

Two Mukhtiarkars — Nazir Amin Maqbool and Gul Sher Rind — and eight Tapedars (revenue collectors) were found guilty of not only inserting bogus entries in revenue records but also caused harm to government officials and private people, the CO said.

He said that the supervising Tapedar, Ghulam Rasool Mithani, was hand in glove with Tapedar Ghulam Rasool Dayo and had forged records with false entries in survey No25 regarding forest land in Deh Tigger, Dokri Taluka.

The CO said that it was 116 acres of forest land that was later sold out to 18 private people including Nizamuddin, Mohammed Saleh, Mohammed Bachal, Imdad Ali, and others on the basis of bogus entries.

The forest department said that it was exclusively forest land that had been sold out on fake documents.

ACE sources said that Tapedar Sharafuddin Khaskheli changed ownership of agricultural land of survey numbers 170, 171, 172, 174, and 179 in Deh Elchi of Kambar Taluka in the name of Nazir Ahmed Abro.

The CO said that loans were later obtained on three agriculture pass books from the Agricultural Development Bank in the names of Nazir Abro, Bashir Abro, and Ghulam Ali Abro, and added that they did it intentionally.

He said the fake signatures of other Tapedars were also put in. Mukhtiarkar Gulsher Rind, Supervising Tapedar Deedar Hussain, and Tapedar Azizullah Zangijo through changes in the revenue records sold out 20 acres of central government land in Deh Jakhar, Taluka Warah, to Hajjan Chandio. Hajjan Chandio later obtained agricultural loan on a pass book from the ADB, Warah, to the tune of Rs120,000.

He said that around a dozen Tapedars — Azizullah Zangijo, Abbas Ali, Qurban Ali Wadho, Barkat Ali Soomro, Sikandar Ali Zangijo, Nazir Hussain Chandio, Mohammed Nawaz Junejo, Muneer Ahmed Magsi, Abdul Sami Bhagat, Amanullah Awan, Shahbaz Ali Gopang, Ghulam Rasool Metlo, Noor Hussain Mughiri, Niaz Hussain Siyal, and Abdul Wahid Bhutto would face departmental inquiry in the light of the decision taken by the ACC-II. Three Mukhtiarkars — Mohammed Nawaz Bhutto, Khadim Hussain Kutrio, and Nasir Ali — would face departmental inquiry. The ACC-II had allowed that a case be registered against Gulfam Mohiuddin Mukhtiarkar Dokri.

The cases of police, health, and excise were referred for departmental inquiry.

The district police officer; the director, Excise and Taxation; the executive district officer (health); and the deputy director, ACE, Larkana, Abdul Razzak Soomro, attended the meeting among others.