Ex-SSP gets three-year RI

Published August 1, 2002

QUETTA, July 31: The Accountability Court No. II, Quetta, on Wednesday awarded three years’ rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs2.2 million to Sibi’s former SSP, Qazi Abdul Wahid, in two corruption cases.

The court, headed by judge Mohammad Nadir Khan Durrani, sentenced Wahid to two years of rigorous imprisonment and awarded him a fine of Rs1.24 million in the first reference case.

The court ordered forfeiture of the assets and propriety of the convict. In case of default on payment of the fine money, the former police official would undergo an additional term of one-year rigorous imprisonment.

The judge sentenced Wahid to one year’s rigorous imprisonment and fined him one million rupees in another corruption reference, pertaining to the preparation of fictitious TA and TTA bills, amounting to Rs1.9 million of police employees.

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