DERA GHAZI KHAN: The irrigation department’s executive engineer dispatched on Monday a letter to the Choti Zaireen police station house officer to quash a water theft case against PML-N MPA Awais Ahmed Khan Leghari as it was mistakenly registered against the MPA instead of lease-holders who were cultivating the land at present.

Choti police had registered the water theft case against Leghari on the report of the irrigation department some days ago. A departmental inquiry conducted by the executive engineer canal revealed that at present the land owned by the mother of the MPA was in the possession of lease-holders.

In its letter to the Choti SHO, the EXEN said the case should be registered against Akram Gujjar and Ayoob Pathar instead of MPA Awais Ahmed Khan Leghari.

Published in Dawn, July 23rd, 2019