KARACHI, May 6: Judge Syed Ikram Jaffery of the special court for banking offences remanded on Monday two alleged forgers, who had withdrawn more than Rs4 million from the account of their employer on forged cheques, in the custody of FIA for investigations.
Five officials of United Bank and Muslim Commercial Bank have already been booked in the case by the Commercial Banks Circle. The officials — Ameen Uddin, manager of a UBL branch, and his two officers, Mehtab Alam and Khursheed Hussain, Zahid Mughul, manager of MCB’s Clifton branch, and his officer Khawaja Raees Uddin — were also arrested, but they later obtained bail from the Sindh High Court.
Ijazur Rahman and Saqib Hussain, employees of Kaghan Trading Company, were arrested late Monday night.
The case against the bank officials and others was registered on the complaint of Mohammed Ahmed, one of the proprietors of the trading company, after he learnt that Rs4.9 million were missing from his account in the MCB.
During investigations, it was revealed that two forged cheques of Kaghan Trading Company were deposited in a bogus account at a UBL branch, opened in the name of Waheed Niazi on the basis of forged documents.
The two employees of the company allegedly stole the cheques from the cheque book of their employers and deposited them in the forged account.
ROBBERY CASE: An additional district and sessions judge recorded the statement of Samiullah, former captain of the national hockey team, who was robbed by two bandits in 1996.
One of the accused, Jahanzeb, was arrested and is being prosecuted for robbing the hockey star and his wife.
Samiullah, who is also complainant of the case, however, could not identify accused Jahanzeb as one of the two bandits while recording his statement before the judge.
He said he was going with his wife on April 23, 1996 when two occupants of a Honda car, carrying no registration number, intercepted their car in the police limits of Tipu Sultan. The bandits held him and his wife hostage at gunpoint and one of them robbed his wife of gold bangles and a gold chain. He said the bandits also robbed him of Rs13,000.
