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FAISALABAD, Sept 22: A special Anti-Corruption Court on Monday handed down six-year hard jail and fined Rs200,000 each to three Education department employees for misappropriating Rs322,000.
They will have to pay Rs322,000 which they had embezzled from the government treasury.
According to the prosecution, schoolteacher Bushra Bibi had greased the palms of clerks Manzoor and Ahmed for tampering with her official record. All the three accused misappropriated pension emoluments of Rs322,000 in 1995 and had been booked under the law.
RECOVERY: Revenue officers recovered Rs380 million outstanding dues from defaulters of the different departments in the district during the previous financial year.
During a meeting of the revenue officers here on Monday, it was disclosed that Rs117 million were retrieved under the head of water rate, Rs107 million under miscellaneous government dues and Rs20 million under the agricultural income tax. It further said that Rs26 million and Rs91 million, respectively, were recovered from defaulters of the Punjab Cooperative Bank and Agricultural Development Bank of Pakistan (ADBP).
The meeting was further told that Rs3 million had been recovered from defaulters of the Water Management Department.
Similarly, around Rs0.868 million were recovered under Baitul Maal, Rs3.750 million on account of local rate, Rs4 million as mutation fee of the Revenue department and Rs3 million as the arrears of stamp duty.
The EDO (Revenue) directed the revenue officers to accelerate the pace of recovery drive.
