PESHAWAR, Dec 18: The anti-corruption department has registered a case against a former nazim and some officials of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) on the charge of forgery, it is learnt. Official sources said that the accused would be arrested after approval by the director, anti-corruption.

Litaf Gul, who was elected nazim of the Sikandari union council in Mardan on Oct 12, was booked on the charge of contesting the election on a forged matriculation certificate.

The sources said that some officials of the BISE’s certificate branch were nominated in the FIR on the charge of abetting Mr Gul in getting the bogus certificate.

Mr Gul, backed by PPP-Sherpao, had won the August local bodies election by defeating his rivals.

His closest rival, Mushtaq, approached the election tribunal, saying that Mr Gul had contested the election on a fake certificate. The tribunal declared the election null and void and announced a date for bye-election in the Sikandari union council.

Mr Gul, however, filed a writ in the Peshawar High Court, pleading that the re-election should be stopped.

In the meantime, the anti-corruption department stepped in and sent a copy of the certificate to the BISE for verification.

The BISE in a departmental inquiry found that some of the officials of certificate branch had issued the certificate to Mr Gul on a duplicate roll number.

The anti-corruption department registered the case and requested the director for permission to arrest the accused.

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