MURREE, Jan 6: Tehsil Council on Tuesday rejected the irregularities and corruption charges against Murree Tehsil Nazim as unfounded.

The audit committee, headed by Malik Fidaul Hassan, presented its report in the TMA meeting convened by Convener Raja Ziaur Rehman.

The seven-member committee, comprising Tariq Mehmood, Usman Abbasi, Haji Abdul Rashid, Raja Munir Khurshid, Shafqat Ali Abbasi and Begum Shahida Khurshid, said that the charges levelled against Tehsil Nazim Sardar Muhammad Salim Khan by the Punjab government’s audit teams relate to the former local bodies not to the present Tehsil Nazim.

The committee further said that the former local bodies’ institutions committed the irregularities and mismanagement in the lease of land, construction of roads and forests department not the present one.

Mirza Sohail Beg, member of Tehsil Council, said that the Punjab government did not provide the audit report against Tehsil Nazim to the Murree Tehsil Council members so he along with other members supported it conditionally.

Sardar Salim Khan, Tehsil Nazim Murree, in his speech criticised the media trial of the TMA and termed it political victimisation.

He said that his hands were clean and he had never been involved in any corruption. Sardar Salim claimed that during his tenure he initiated unprecedented mega development projects not only in Murree’s urban areas but also in remote areas of the tehsil.

The house also allowed allocation of huge amounts for the construction of roads on the direction of the Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif.