DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Jan 27: An anti-corruption court on Thursday asked the district government to submit a complete record of development work carried out in the district, by Feb 27.

The anti-corruption department, assistant director said in the court that the district government had submitted an incomplete record of development schemes. The district government had submitted a list of 20 electricity transformers and a few dozens hand pumps to the department.

But it is learnt that it had purchased around 100 transformers and hundreds of hand pumps in the past two years. The anti-corruption court also asked three officials of the finance and accounts branch of the district government to appear before the court on the next hearing.

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