KARACHI: The Sindh government has ordered registration of FIRs and arrest of 64 officials facing serious charges of corruption and financial irregularities and decided to hold open inquiries in 36 cases, according to director of Anti-Corruption Sindh Nazar Mohammad Bozdar.

Mr Bozdar told journalists after a meeting of the Anti-Corruption Committee which had met after a long interval of 20 months that the committee had ordered registration of cases against and arrest of officials who included officers of grades 18, 19, and 20, former nazims, TMOs and others over corruption.

The meeting was chaired by chief secretary Mohammad Sadiq Memon and attended by chairman Anti-Corruption Establishment Sindh, Syed Mumtaz Ali Shah, secretaries of local government, health and education department.

Mr Bozdar said the meeting took decisions on 58 out of 125 cases pertaining to education, health and local government departments. In three cases of the health department, orders were issued to lodge FIRs and arrest five suspects involved in the embezzlement of about Rs80 million and illegal recruitment of 304 people.

In six cases, open inquiry was ordered and four cases were referred to the health department for inquiry and report within 30 days, he said.

He said the committee also ordered to register FIR and arrest 24 officials involved in cases of setting up illegal water hydrants, embezzlement of Rs6.2 million from GP fund and illegal recruitment of 214 people.

The committee ordered to hold open inquiry in 29 cases of education department involving about Rs80 million embezzlement and 700 illegal recruitments in the department.

The committee decided to launch a thorough inquiry into the case pertaining to sale of plot of Muniba School, Shah Faisal Colony, while four cases were referred to the education department for completing departmental inquiry within 30 days, he said.

Mr Bozdar informed in seven cases pertaining to local government department the committee ordered registration of FIRs and arrest of all 35 suspects, most of them former taluka nazims and TMOs.

The committee ordered arrest of five officials in three cases of health department. They are; ex-MLO of Dokri Hospital Dr Abdul Ghaffar Kandhro, ex-MLO of Taluka Hospital Hala, Dr Mohammad Hussain Khaskheli, and one private person Abdul Khaliq Jokhio and medical officer of rural health center Pakka Chang, Dr Fida Hussain Chang.

In the education and literacy department, the committee ordered arrest of 24 officials in five cases. They included; regional director of colleges Sukkur, Altaf Hussain Abbasi; deputy director, Inayatullah Jogi; office superintendent, Ghulam Asghar Jaskani; assistant Rano Bhatti, DDO Allahdad Mahar, ADO Ghulam Sawar Pathan and junior clerk Ghulam Qadir Khokhar, former EDO of Tando Mohammad Khan Ghulam Shabbir Bughio and his personal assistant Pervez Bhatti, Government Boys Primary School Lyari Head Master Ejaz Hussain, Ex-EDO Lyari Town Karim Bakhsh Brohi, office superintendent Mushtaq Ahmad, NBP branch Denso Hall manager Mohammad Mairajul Haq, credit officer Arif Yusuf, supervisor of education Abdul Samad and Ejaz Ali Abbasi and private persons Ghulam Hussain, ex-EDO Kashmore-Kandhkot Abdul Nabi Kalor, DOE (education) Qazi Nisar Ahmad, EDO (female) Shamshad Khatoon, head clerk Fazal Deen and senior auditor Jacobabad Manzoor Ahmad.

The committee decided that in seven cases of local government department FIR would be lodged and 35 officials would be arrested. They were; ex-taluka nazim Ali Akbar Banglani, ex-TMO Abdul Sattar Sarhindi, ex-TO finance Lal Bux Dashti, TMO Abdul Ghaffar Shaikh, TO finance Amanullah Abro, proprietors of Bismiallah Iron Store Thull, M Iqbal & Co and Suraj Pipe Store Thull, additional district officer North Karachi Khalid Zafar Hashmi, DDO Shahid Wali, junior clerk Mohammad Javed and private person Abdul Rahman Anasari, additional district officer Lines Area Redevelopment Project Anees Zaidi, ADO Ms Ishrat Jahan, deputy district officer Manzoor Ahamd, stenographer Abdul Latif, private lady Akhtari Begum, Mohammad Salim, TMO Sinjhoro Jaman Das, ex-XEN Landhi-Korangi Ameer Ali Bhatti, Ex-DDO Mohammad Juned Khan, ex-nazim Hyderabad taluka Khawind Bakhsh, ex-TMO Hyderabad rural Faqir Shakir, sub-engineer Abdul Aziz Memon, contractor Nisar Ahmad and others, XEN KWSB Izharuddin, Tahir Ali Khan and Mohammad Ejaz, assistant engineer Mohammad Ejaz Alam, Abdul Qadir, Haris Farooqui, Riazur Rehman, Shafiuddin Khan, Sahibzada Tufail Ahmad and others.

Published in Dawn, August 20th, 2015

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