PESHAWAR, Sept 30: The Peshawar High Court on Friday stayed the proceedings of a Nowshera consumer court against three persons of an NGO charged with misappropriating funds meant for relief and rehabilitation of flood victims.

Two residents of flood-hit Pir Sabak village of Nowshera, Faheemullah Khan and Irfan Ahmad, had leveled the charge in a complaint.

While staying the consumer court's proceedings, Justice Dost Muhammad Khan of a single-bench admitted to hearing a plea of the three, Livelihood Restoration and Labour Education Foundation coordinator at Pir Sabak Sehrish, accountant Nisar Alai and coordinator at Peshawar Farooq Ahmad, for dismissal of the complaint.

He also ordered production of record of the case and issued notices to all relevant parties to turn up.

The complainants said the three NGO persons embezzled huge sum of money meant for flood victims through fake and forged documents.

They alleged that the three paid Rs3,000 each to women participants of a training programme though they're to be given Rs10,000 each.

The accused moved the Farah Jamshed-headed Nowshera consumer court with a request for dismissal of the plea. However, the request was turned down.

Noor Alam appeared before the high court for the accused and maintained that the said consumer court couldn't hear the complaint against his clients under the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Consumer Protection Act-1997.

He also said one of the complainants was a schoolteacher engaged by the said NGO but was sacked for poor performance.

The sacking, he claimed, led the complainant into leveling 'baseless' allegations against the NGO persons.