September 21, 2007	Friday	Ramazan 08, 1428

ATTOCK, Sept 20: The land mafia in connivance with the local revenue officials have allegdly got transferred 23 kanals of a mosque under a fake mutation.

Speaking at a press conference here, the president of the administrative committee of Masjid Ahle Sunnat Wal-Jamaat, Kamalpur Syedan Attock cantonment, Shah Nawaz Malik said a philanthropist, Karam Din (late) of Kamalpur Syedan, had in 1963 donated 25 kanal, five marla land on Kamra Road in Attock under mutation No 5017 for the construction of a mosque.

However, the committee received a summon on September 1, 2007, from the court of civil judge Attock that one Qamarul Islam, of Hazro, had filed a land separation petition claiming that he was the owner of the 23 kanals as it was gifted to him by his father on Aug 24, 1970, after purchasing it from Karam Din.

Malik claimed that when they approached the revenue office to probe the matter, it transpired that a fake mutation, No 5936, of the 23 kanals bearing the name of Mr Islam had fraudulently been attached to the document.

He alleged that the area patwari was involved in the malpractice.

However, the matter was brought into the notice of the court concerned and the process was underway.

It may be mentioned that some revenue officials had also allegedly deprived two farmers - Wazir Mohammad and Wasifullah - of the ownership of their 65 kanal, seven marla agricultural land at Gharsheen village by manipulating the revenue record.

The affected persons filed a complaint with the anti-corruption department Attock on April 30, 2007, where an enquiry is under progress.