KARACHI, Aug 6: An anti-corruption court reissued on Tuesday non-bailable warrants for the arrest of a former chairman of the Employees’ Old-Age Benefits Institution (EOBI) and others in a land scam case.

The then director general of the EOBI, Wahid Khursheed Kunwar, the former head of the EOBI investment committee, Iqbal Dawood Pakwala, retired colonel Ali Asad Mirza and his daughter Maham have been arrested for their alleged involvement in the purchase of a four-acre disputed piece of land in 2011-2012 near Karachi airport on a hefty price that caused huge financial losses to the exchequer.

On previous hearings, the court issued non-bailable warrants for absconders, including former EOBI chairman Zafar Iqbal Gondal, employees’ representatives of the EOBI Malik Imtiaz Mehfooz and Qasim Pervez, a representative of Wahid Khursheed.

However, the Federal Investigation Agency informed the court that the warrants were not executed.

Judge Tasneem Sultana of the Special Federal Anti-Corruption Court reissued warrants for the arrest of the absconders asking the FIA to arrest and produce them in court till Aug 16.

The court also extended the interim pre-arrest bail of Nighat Mirza, wife of Col Mirza, till the next hearing.

A case was registered under Sections 409 (criminal breach of trust by public servant, or by banker merchant or agent), 419 (punishment for cheating by personation), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), 471 (using as genuine a forged document) and 109 (abetment) of the Pakistan Penal Code read with Section 5 (2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act-II, 1947 at the FIA Commercial Banking Circle, Karachi.