MANSEHRA: The Anti-Corruption Establishment of Mansehra officials have arrested the district revenue officer and a tax superintendent of the district council for corruption.

ACE circle chief Mohammad Sohail told reporters here on Tuesday that DRO Ali Afsar and tax superintendent Mohammad Rashid were taken into custody for taking Rs20,000 bribe for award of the fruit and vegetable transportation levy collection contract in Balakot.

He said currency notes used for corruption were also recovered from the DRO.

The ACE official said the money was recovered from the tax superintendent during a raid on his office in the presence of Balakot magistrate Islamuddin.

ACE makes arrests after recovery of Rs20,000 notes used for bribe

He said the seized currency notes were marked by the magistrate.

Sohail said contractor Zulfiqar Khan had formally complained against the suspects insisting they’d demanded Rs20,000 for the award of the contract of receiving levy of transportation of fruits and vegetables from Balakot tehsil to other parts of country.

The ACE official said a senior civil judge had ordered the handing over of the suspects to the police on one-day physical remand.

He said the currency notes recovered from the pocket of Mohammad Rashid were also received for other suspect, DOR.

ACTION AGAINST POLICE DEMANDED: Local journalists on Tuesday demanded action against the policeman, who attacked and injured media personnel in the federal capital.

They also condemned the storming of the Pakistan Television building by a mob and demanded arrest of perpetrators for exemplary punishment.

The demands were made during a rally taken out here.

Holding banners and placards, protesters shouted slogans against the police for highhandedness against journalists in Islamabad.

On the occasion, president of the local press club Shahzad Jahangiri and president of TV Journalists Association Nisar Khan Swati said the interior minister had ordered the police to teach a lesson to journalists in the federal capital. They said an FIR should be registered against the interior minister. They also demanded security for journalists.

PROBE INTO RAPE DEMANDED: A group of Bugermung area residents on Tuesday demanded that the provincial inspector general of police ensure an impartial inquiry into the alleged rape of a schoolgirl first by a local resident and then by the investigation officer of Shinkiari police earlier this month.

Asif Khan, Mohammad Ajmal and others told reporters here said a ninth grader from their area had alleged that a local man had raped her when she was returning home from school on June 25 though school record showed she was struck off on June 11.

They insisted the girl had got a fake rape case registered with the police due to her family’s enmity with that of the suspect.

Asif Khan and Mohammad Ajmal alleged that the girl leveled a baseless rape charge against the investigation officer, too, after the police began probe into the earlier alleged rape.

They demanded that the provincial police chief form a committee to hold impartial inquiry into the allegations.

Published in Dawn, September 3rd, 2014