PESHAWAR: An accountability court here on Friday sentenced a police officer to one year rigorous imprisonment and fiend him Rs10 million for possessing illegal assets.

Judge Hafiz Naseem Akbar pronounced the decision, saying that the prosecution had proved the case against Station House Officer Gul Hameed Khan and the evidence on record proved that he possessed assets disproportionate to his known sources of income, which was an offence under section 9 of the National Accountability Ordinance, 1999.

The court ordered forfeiture of the properties of the convict.

The National Accountability Bureau, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, had started an inquiry against the convict, who is posted in Bannu district, and after completion of the investigation, had filed a reference in 2015 before the accountability court.

NAB’s prosecutor Sartaj Khan contended that the police officer was recruited as a sepoy in the police department in 1980 and was promoted as inspector in 2012. He added that the convict had served as SHO at Lakki Marwat and Bannu districts. He stated that the police department official had acquired properties on his name and that of his wife, including a 40 kanal piece of land at Langarkhel in Lakki Marwat, a house at Zafar Colony in Bannu and maintained accounts at three different banks.

Published in Dawn, March 21st, 2020