KARACHI: An accountability court on Monday directed the prison authorities to furnish complete record of medical treatment of former chairman of the Fishermen Cooperative Society (FCS) Nisar A. Morai, who is detained in connection with a Rs343 million corruption reference.

Nisar Morai, former FCS chairman Abdul Saeed Khan, former FCS vice chairman Sultan Qamar Siddiqui and 10 other officials and contractors have been booked in a reference for allegedly misusing authority, embezzling funds, making illegal appointments and awarding fake contracts during 2014-15.

On Monday, the case was fixed before the link judge of accountability court-I, when the detained accused persons, including Sultan Qamar Siddiqui, were produced from prison. The prison officials said that co-accused Nisar Morai could not be produced before the court as he was ill. To substantiate their claim, they produced a letter issued by the chief medical officer of the prison in that regard.

The court directed the prison chief to furnish complete medical record of the undertrial prisoner and fixed the next hearing on Nov 8.

The federal anti-graft watchdog alleged in the reference that the nominated accused persons had caused a loss of over Rs343m to the national coffers.

NAB officials had arrested the former chairmen, vice chairman, four other former officials of the FCS and a contractor after a bench of the Sindh High Court had dismissed their bail applications on April 11.

Published in Dawn, October 23rd, 2018

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