SHEIKHUPURA: Two officials of the highways department who had been absconding for the last three years in an embezzlement case have been arrested by the Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE).

ACE Assistant Director Khalid Mehmood told Dawn on Friday that Sub-Divisional Officer Shahid Javaid and overseer Javaid Iqbal had given a Rs5m cheque to a contractor for construction of a road in Kot Abdul Malik locality. But the contractor didn’t execute any work.

Following the complaints, the highways department conducted an inquiry and found that road project was not executed.

The ACE registered the case against the both the officials and they went underground.

Published in Dawn, August 27th, 2016