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MIRPURKHAS, Oct 14: The secretary of the provincial Education Works Department has issued show cause notices
to three officers of his department at Mirpurkhas for releasing a huge amount as advance payment to a contractor for a work which had not been carried out.
Report said that in 1998, then XEN Education Works Department Mirpurkhas, with the connivance of assistant engineer Digri sub-division Masood Ahmed Bajwa and head clerk Vasdev, paid a Rs157,000 to a contractor for upgradation of a school in deh 170 of taluka Digri but no work was carried out at the site. Few weeks ago an inspection team of the secretary of Education Works Department visited the site where no work was carried out.
Even measurement book of the said work was also missing from the official record.
The secretary after receiving the report by the inspection team issued show cause notices to XEN Education Works Department, Nafees Ahmed, assistant engineer Digri sub-division, Masood Ahmed Bajwa and a sub-engineer Digri, whose name could not be ascertained.
BOOKED: Four persons including two doctors and a woman were booked by the Tando Adam police in a murder case on Sunday.
Abdul Rauf Memon, resident of Karachi, had lodged FIR alleging that his sister Ms Irfana, 27, mother of two, was strangulated by her husband Dr Abdul Aziz Memon, Dr Mohammad Shafi Memon, Mohammad Hassan Memon and Ms Husna, wife of Dr Mohammad Shafi, on July 26.
Dr Abdul Aziz with the help of others accused strangulated his sister Ms Irfana to get rid of her, he added.
