HYDERABAD, May 26: A brother of an interned cashier of the Allied Bank Limited, Bus Stand branch, Khipro, has appealed to the higher authorities to ensure justice to Zulfiqar Shar, who, he claimed, was falsely implicated by the bank officials in the Rs7.6 million fraud case.

Speaking at a press conference at the local press club, Khadim Hussain Shar said that his brother, now imprisoned in the Central Jail, Karachi, worked hard to improve the performance of the branch in 1998.

He said in 2001 loans were issued through fraudulent means by the senior bank officials from the branch, causing the loss to the national exchequer. Zulfiqar informed the bank manager about the fraud, who asked him to remain silent otherwise he would be sent to the jail, he added.

Khadim Hussain said the zonal chief was also informed by his brother about the fraud. After some time, he added, Zulfiqar was called by the zonal chief to Hyderabad and confined him in a strong room.

He claimed that my brother was subjected to torture for four days.

He charged he was again locked up in a strong room of the ABL Mirpurkhas branch and then handed over to the FIA. He said that on November 20, 2002, a false case was lodged against him. In response to his letters, the governor of State Bank, called for a report but since then there had been no development in the case.

He said that he gathered the record of the bank, showing the loss of millions of rupees to the state bank. The branch had been merged in the Sir Syed road branch and original record had gone missing.

He said his brother was falsely implicated without any evidence. He accused different bank officials of committing the fraud.