MIRPURKHAS: Police detained mukhtiarkar of Hussain Bux Marri taluka on Monday on charges of selling relief goods worth over Rs400,000 to private persons from the office of Mirpurkhas deputy commissioner.

Sources said that a reporter of a private TV channel complained to DC Zainul Abideen Memon at his office that his men had bought flood victims’ relief goods including tents, ration bags and blankets from mukhtiarkar Qayyum Leghari.

The DC called the mukhtiarkar to his office and the reporter narrated the entire episode which the revenue official could not deny, hence the DC agreed to get a case registered against him, said the sources.

Town police detained the mukhtiarkar and sent him behind bars but SHO Mir Mohammad Keerio said that they had taken the official into custody to avoid a scene as a large number of people had gathered on the office premises. The case against him would be lodged with Anti-Corruption Estab-lishment’s Mirpurkhas circle office, he said, adding that the DC would be complainant in the case. However, no case was lodged with ACE circle office till late in the evening.

Published in Dawn, November 29th, 2022