KARACHI, July 21: The Special Court (offences in banks) Sindh at Karachi has directed that a case of fraud be registered against the Nazim of the Banking Court-II and six others on the complaint of Abid Iqbal Ansari.

The presiding officer of the special court, Judge Syed Ekram Hussain Jafri, perused the written complaint and observed that the statement of the complainant and the opinion of a handwriting expert in respect of the signatures and the handwritings on the account opening form and on different cheques for withdrawal prima facie established the guilt of the accused.

He held in his order that the documents on record prima facie proved that the respondents, namely (1) Syed Azim A. Riaz (2) Waqar Ahmed Junaidi (3) Rafiq Ahmed Patel (4) Mubeen Ahmed Qureshi (5) Syed Wajid Ali (6) Ghulam World (7) Muhammad Idrees Qureshi, “in each other’s collaboration with criminal common intention opened a fake and fictitious A/C in the name of the complainant and withdrew a sum of Rs9 lac (Rs900,000) through different cheques, under forged signatures of the complainant through the said fake A/C.”