KARACHI: The Sindh Enquiries and Anti-corruption Establishment (SEAE) has booked Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) examinations controller Imran Chishti and its former chairman Anwar Ahmed Zai in a fresh case of wrongdoing and malpractice worth millions of rupees.

Hours after registration of the FIR, a team of the SEAE raided the house of Mr Chishti in Gulshan-i-Iqbal but returned empty handed as he was not home. Ghulam Qadir Thebo, chairman of the Enquiries and Anti-corruption Establishment, told Dawn that efforts were on to arrest the nominated persons in the fresh FIR, which included more than a dozen BIEK officials.

“This case is an old one and it has nothing to do with the anti-corruption inquiry launched last year against the alleged wrongdoings and misappropriation during preparation of 2016 intermediate results,” he said. “The fresh case was registered after a thorough investigation into different allegations against BIEK officials, including Mr Zai and Mr Chishti, which led to the fact that they were involved in misappropriation of funds, illegal allocation of tenders and bribery for results during past several years.”

The BIEK authorities and the Enquiries and Anti-Corruption Establishment are at odds since August 2016 when the provincial watchdog had raided the board building and seized record to probe into alleged corruption in intermediate examination.

After their stay for three days at the board building, the BIEK high-ups came up with an argument that the situation had prevented them from declaring results in accordance with higher education institutes’ admission deadlines, and the office was also at risk of losing 20-years-old data.

Published in Dawn, January 6th, 2017