09 January 2005	Sunday	27 Ziqa'ad 1425

KOHAT, Jan 8: Three revenue department officials on Friday went into hiding after being implicated in a corruption case for illegally transferring property, it has been learnt.

The anti-corruption department registered an FIR against all three of them, including the beneficiary, Mohammad Fayyaz, in the wake of an ongoing inquiry into the illegal transfer of property by a retired tehsildar and two of his subordinates.

Retired tehsildar Abdul Subhan, his subordinates who are still serving Rehmatullah and Mohammad Fayyaz went into hiding when a team of anti-corruption department raided the house of patwari, Safdarur Rehman, who produced a bail before arrest.

An official of the anti-corruption department informed Dawn on Saturday that Safdarur Rehman's bail would be cancelled in view of the case prepared by the department while the disappearance of two others would strengthen the case against them.

He said that the accused had illegally transferred plot number 982, situated in the Nasratkhel area in the name of Mohammad Fayyaz. The accused had been booked under sections 419, 420, 468 and 471 of PPC and efforts were being made for their arrest, he added.