FAISALABAD: The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) has registered a case against 45 people, including a patwari and seven women, on charges of unlawful transfer of 287 acres of state land worth Rs300 million situated in Chak 535-GB and Chak 659-GB.

The people who were transferred the land had also obtained Rs250m loan against it.

Faisalabad ACE Additional Director Ayub Khan told Dawn a complaint was received a couple of weeks back that Nadeem Sultan, a patwari, had illegally transferred the state land to dozens of people. He said the matter was referred to then City AC Shafiullah Khan to probe the matter.

Shafiullah Khan found that the revenue record had been tampered with and the land was transferred unlawfully to 45 people. He held Patwari Sultan responsible for the illegal transfer and the matter was referred to the ACE.

Patwari held responsible for transferring land worth Rs300m

The joint investigation team of the ACE also checked the official record and detected that land worth Rs300m had been transferred illegally and the beneficiaries also obtained a loan of Rs250m from the Zarai Taraqiati Bank in 2012, Ayub Khan said.

He said a case had been registered against Mohammad Ali, Basharat, Ashraf, Abdul Khaliq, Sadiq, Fazal, Aslam, Nawaz, Anwar, Mumtaz, Aslam, Nawaz, Naeem, Pehlwan, Ghulam Mustafa, Taj, Abdul Ghaffar, Rafiq, Anwar, Jan, Irshad, Waris, Noor, Abdul Jabbar, Mohammad Irshad and others.

VEHICLES: Police returned lifted and snatched motorcycles and cars to their owners at an event held at the Police Lines on Thursday.

Thirty cars and 90 motorcycles, worth of Rs30m, were handed over to the owners.

City Police Officer Sohail Habib Tajik and the parliamentarians, including Tahir Jameel and Faqir Husain Dogar, handed over keys to the owners.

Police claimed vehicles and motorcycles were recovered during one month by various police stations.

Published in Dawn, September 19th, 2014