NAWABSHAH, July 14: Doulatpur police booked late on Sunday the PML-Q backed UC nazim and 14 others on charge of water theft.

Irrigation Department, Darogha, Mohammed Yaqoob Zardari lodged an FIR stated that he and his staff found Nazim UC Khar Mumtaz Dahiri stealing water from the Watercourse No: 9-L through lift machine while patrolling Lundki Minor.

On being asked to stop their illegal activity, the nazim and his men misbehaved with police party and later left, he said.

Doulatpur police booked Mumtaz Dahiri, Azeem, Zafar, Ali Dahiri, Fateh, Noor Mohammed, Zulfiqar, Abdul Ghaffar, Abdi Hussain and six others.

However, Mumtaz Dahiri told Dawn that police had implicated him in the false case on the directives of Special Assistant to CM Sindh, Ismail Dahiri,

He said that earlier also, Doulatpur police had booked him and others in fake cases, including one under an Anti Terrorism Act.

He lamented that his son died during firing on which he got registered a case against Ismail Dahiri and others but police instead were implicating him in false cases. He said he belonged to the PML-Q and was being politically victimized and harassed to withdraw his constitutional petition filed in the Sindh High Court Karachi.