ISLAMABAD, Jan 5: City police is taking a retired army officer and his two accomplices to a civil court on Saturday to seek their remand for playing fraud with the army.

Retired Major Abdul Haseeb, a resident of F-6/2, along with his two alleged civilian accomplices, was arrested on Thursday on a complaint from the army’s Quarter Master General’s office that they had tried to cheat the army of its land by using forged documents. Rawalpindi residents Sheikh Abdul Hameed, a Military Accounts Department employee, and Fazal Karim, a shopkeeper, were identified as the two accomplices.

Syed Shahzad Ali Shah, a third accomplice named in the case registered with the Shalimar Police Station by Brig Mohammad Khalid Saeed, Director Land Disposal Cell (DLDC) in the QMG’s office at the General Headquarters, had secured ‘bail-before- arrest’ from a civil court of Islamabad till January 12.

Brig Saeed registered the complaint after investigating an information that members of some ‘land mafia’ were preparing fake documents to grab and sell out Pakistan Army’s land measuring 18.36 acres in Faisal Cantonment Karachi.

His investigations revealed that Major (retired) Abdul Haseeb, son of Abdul Hayee and resident of House 1, Street 27, F- 6/2, posed himself as a serving army officer in preparing fake legal papers with the help of Syed Shahzad Ali, son of Abdullah Shah, and Sheikh Abdul Hameed, son of Sheikh Mohammad Amin. Stamp papers valuing Rs30 were purchased from Badr-ud-Deen stamp vendor on July 15, 2006.

His FIR to the police alleged that the land mafia members established their office at Shahzad Ali’s house, No. 140, St 23, G-10/2 Islamabad. There the accused forged documents on behalf of Lt-Col Nasir Mehmood Rindhawa and Lt-Col Aleem Khan of QMG’s office at the GHQ.

Besides the accused, Fazal-i-Akbar, a resident of Gulraiz Colony, Rawalpindi, contracted property deals with several parties by posing as a serving army officer at the GHQ.

The accused prepared a fake bank draft No. DD-PO- 3431062 valuing Rs35 million and put a fake stamp of Quarter Master General of GHQ on the draft.

The Shalimar police have started investigating these details.

An intelligence agency had already been investigating other complaints against serving and retired army officers who sold their plots in Defence Housing Scheme Morgah and collected the cash but allegedly refused to transfer the property to the buyers, presumably because price of property was going up in the market.