LAHORE, May 2: The Punjab NAB arrested on Thursday three officials of the revenue department from Bahawalpur on corruption charges.

Those arrested are patwari Tauseef Ahmad, girdawar Khurshid Ahmad and tehsildar Javed Saleem.

According to NAB, Tauseef Ahmad had allotted state land measuring 184 kanals in Chak 10-BC, Bahawalpur, to 458 persons through mutation No-1 on Oct 16, 1996.

The mutation was reportedly verified by Khurshid Ahmad and sanctioned by Javaid Saleem. Neither the allotment was made nor the orders were issued by the assistant commissioner concerned under the Jinnah Abadi Scheme. The entries on the survey register were made with fake signatures of the assistant commissioner, the NAB alleged.

According to it, Tauseef Ahmad in connivance with the other two accused fraudulently entered inheritance of state land measuring 67 kanals in Chak 9-BC, Bahawalpur, in favour of Mukhtar Ahmad who never appeared before the accused or submitted any application or document to his office.

The accused made bogus entries in register Haqdaran-i-Zameen of Chak 9-BC by showing Muhammad Ramazan and Muhammad Husain as cultivators in 1986 and 1987 and as allottees in 1990 and 1991 of the state land measuring 427 kanals. These persons did not exist and never lived in the village, the NAB further alleged.

Tauseef Ahmad and Khurshid Ahmad have been alleged to have received gratification of Rs45,000 and Rs480,000, respectively, from Tariq Naseer for giving illegal and undue favour to him in the allotment of land and plots.