QUETTA: The Balochistan High Court (BHC) has upheld an order of the Accountability Court, Quetta, regarding illegal allotment of the government land to former MPA Sadiq Umrani by the All Pakistan Clerks Association (APCA).

A division bench of the BHC comprising Chief Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhel and Justice Abdul Hameed Baloch heard the case.

Former Tehsildar Abdul Nabi, former Patwari Mohammad Jaffar and APCA president Abdul Rauf had been sentenced to three years in prison by the accountability court for allotting government land illegally at a throwaway price to the former MPA.

The Balochistan government had earmarked 100 acres of land to the APCA for its housing scheme but it had allotted a few acres of this land to the former MPA.

After the accountability court’s order the convicted persons had approached the BHC seeking suspension of their sentence. The high court had accepted the appeal.

Later, in light of the National Accountability Bureau’s investigation into the case and concrete evidence against the accused, the BHC upheld the decision of the Accountability Court, Quetta.

Published in Dawn, September 2nd, 2020