GUJRAT: District Police Officer (DPO) Umar Salamat has suspended the entire police guards posted at the Gujrat regional passport office for their alleged involvement in corrupt practices.
Two senior officials of Mungowal police post, including its head, have also been suspended for showing a fake record.
According to a spokesman for the Gujrat police, cops at the passport office guard - Fazal Hussain, Shahbaz Ali, Qaiser Mehmood, Awais Adeel, Sohail Shahzad and Tahir Aslam - have been suspended for there were complaints about their alleged involvement in looting the passport seekers, with the help of local agent mafia.
The District Police Officer said he got conducted a secret inquiry into the matter in the light of which the entire police guard was suspended.
The District Police Officer also ordered a departmental inquiry against the suspended offices and posted some other cops as the new guard at the passport office who will assume the charge on Tuesday.
Sub-Inspector Shehzad Ahmed, in charge of the Mungowal police post, and Muharrar Baber Abbas were suspended for committing irregularities through fake entries in the record and the suspended officials will now face a departmental inquiry against them.
OPEN COURTS: Most of the complaints received at the revenue open courts on Tuesday were for correction in land revenue record and the authorities claimed to have entertained 282 complainants.
According to the official data, around 63 complaints were received across the district were for correction of revenue record, including 44 in Gujrat tehsil and 15 in Kharian and four in Sara-i-Alamgir. Thirty complaints were regarding mutation of property and 17 were regarding the issuance of Fard (ownership document) whereas the other complaints were regarding the property registration deeds, issuance of domicile and miscellaneous issues.
The land revenue hierarchy at district and tehsil levels has been made bound to sit under one roof to resolve the public issues on the first working day of every month.
Counters were established at the offices of the assistant commissioner of every tehsil whereas the DC and additional DC revenue also attend the proceedings the whole day.
Published in Dawn, December 2nd, 2020
