September 16, 2003	Tuesday	Rajab 18, 1424

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ISLAMABAD, Sept 15: Seven officials of the Capital Development Authority (CDA), including one deputy director and an assistant director, were suspended under the Removal from Service Ordinance 2000 for their alleged involvement in the fraudulent transfer of a residential plot in sector F-10/1.

The suspended officials are: Mehboob Sultan, director estate management-I (residential); Raja Mumtaz Ali, assistant director (admitting) in the one-window operations; Niaz Abbasi, assistant estate management officer in estate management-I (EM-I); Ashfaq Ali, surveyor, (EM-I); Qadar Hussain, upper division clerk, (EM-I); Mohammad Sajjad, lower division clerk, (EM-I), and Abdul Hafeez, LDC, (EM-I).

“The chairman of the CDA, Chaudhry Abdur Rauf, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him under section 4 of the RSO-2000 has suspended these officials with immediate effect following a preliminary inquiry, and has ordered a comprehensive departmental inquiry against them,” a spokesman for the CDA told Dawn.

The spokesman said a complaint had been received against the fraudulent transfer of plot No 24, street 28, in sector F-10. He said the fraud was detected when one Abu Bakar applied for the transfer of the property to a fresh buyer and in the meantime the attorney appointed by the original allottee of the plot, Dr Saeed, approached for preventing the transfer.

On inquiry, it was revealed that Dr Saeed had been living in Germany for a long time and had appointed an attorney to deal with the legal matters concerning his property.

It was revealed that the whole fraud was committed meticulously. Someone who is yet to be identified made a fake national identity card in the name of Dr Saeed with his own photograph affixed on it.

He then applied for the grant of a certified true copy (CTC) of the allotment letter on the pretext that he had lost the original letter. He even completed all the formalities — registering an FIR and issuing advertisements in the press regarding the loss of the property documents.

He was then issued a CTC allotment letter but at the last moment the officer objected to an evident change in the signature of the applicant. However, the applicant managed to satisfy the official and claimed that after a long time since he put his signature on the documents, his signature had slightly changed and he got away with it.

The man impersonating Dr Saeed immediately disposed of the property as soon as he received the CTC allotment letter to one Abu Bakar.

Now Abu Bakar again applied for the transfer of property to another buyer but this time the attorney of Dr Saeed got the information about the fraud and approached the CDA chairman.