HARIPUR, Aug 19: A case has been registered against a union council nazim and nine other persons for allegedly hindering the installation of a crush machine in a village here, police said.

Ghazi police quoted an application filed by one Chaudhry Ziaul Haq, a local contractor, with the office of the assistant director mines Hazara division, as saying that he had obtained the lease of a certain portion of a hillock in village Kharbara, where he wanted to install a crush machine and carry out quarrying there.

But the nazim union council Kharbara Iqbal Tariq and his men did not allow him despite the fact that he had spent Rs5 million for carving out road in the rugged terrain. The complainant, according to police, said that preventing him from starting his business had caused the government exchequer a loss of about 7 million in the shape of taxes.