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KARACHI, Nov 21: The Judicial Magistrate-VII, Central, Khadim Hussein Chand, on Wednesday issued a show-cause notice again to the investigation officer of Liaquatabad police station for his failure to produce a charge-sheet against civil rights campaigner Mohammad Iqbal Kazmi in a fraud case and directed him to appear in court on Dec 4.
Earlier, the court had issued a show-cause notice to investigation officer ASI Syed Zulfiqar Ali on Oct 27 and directed him to produce a complete charge-sheet against the accused on the next hearing. The ASI had submitted an interim charge-sheet against the accused.
The case (FIR No 98/2007) was registered by the police on a complaint of Mohammad Iqbal, son of Mohammad Ikram, under Section 406 of the Pakistan Penal Code on Aug 22.
According to the complainant, the accused had hired four cars – AGO 338, AJV 994, ATV 885 and ATM 242 — from the car rental where he worked as manager. He neither paid the rent nor returned the last car (ATM 242).
The court issued another show-notice to the investigation officer, who had failed to submit a complete charge-sheet when the matter came up for hearing on Wednesday, and directed him to appear in court on the next hearing.
The court has already granted bail to the accused against a surety bond of Rs30,000.
Judge Syed Aley Maqbool Rizvi of the Accountability Court on Wednesday adjourned till Nov 27 the hearing of a NAB reference pertaining to a land scam against R. B. Rahoo and others. According to the reference (No8/07), the accused were involvement in an illegal transfer and subsequent allotment of about 75 acres of land adjacent to Mai Kolachi Road to certain private parties.
Former Sindh Assembly Speaker Syed Muzaffar Hussain Shah was also nominated in the FIR on the grounds that the illegal allotments had been effected by his approval.
However, during the proceedings of the reference, he was found clear and acquitted.
Records showed that the
KPT land in question was acquired for the city’s uplift and development, and that no payment for the land was made by the provincial government to the KPT.
The reference stated that the piece of land was fraudulently sold out to some private parties at a throwaway price, thereby causing a heavy loss to the government exchequer.
In the FIR of the case, it was maintained that the piece of land carried a market value of Rs300 million but was sold at Rs204.977 million after several plots were carved out and allotments were made illegally.
