September 17, 2007	Monday	Ramazan 04, 1428

LAKKI MARWAT, Sept 16: The Anti-Corruption Police, Lakki Marwat, have registered a case against some officials of the education department and the National Bank of Pakistan, Lakki and Titterkhel branches, for allegedly misappropriating teachers’ salaries and their GP fund, according to official sources.

On a complaint of Syed Badshah, the Anti-Corruption Police conducted a probe into accounts of a salary in-charge of the education department, Sifatullah Khan.

During the inquiry, it was revealed that salaries of primary schoolteachers for the month of April 2007 amounting to Rs282,810, advance salaries drawn from the NBP’s Lakki and Titterkhel branches amounting to Rs354,690 and an amount of Rs45,500 of teachers’ General Provident Fund had been embezzled, the sources said.

Quoting an FIR, officials said that the salary in-charge conspired with the officials of the NBP and the education department to misappropriate salaries, advance salaries and the GP fund of the schoolteachers.

Three NBP officials and six local officials of schools and literacy department, including salary in-charge Sifatullah, had been suspended and charged under Sections 409, 419, 420, 468 and 47 of the PPC for embezzling the salaries and the GP fund of the schoolteachers and inflicting losses on the government exchequer.