LAHORE: A judicial magistrate on Saturday extended physical remand of Rawalpindi’s former commissioner retired Capt Muhammad Mahmood and land acquisition collector Waseem Tabish for further four days in the Ring Road scam.

A team of the Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) produced the officers before the magistrate at district courts.

The investigating officer requested the magistrate to extend custody of the suspects to complete the investigation.

A counsel for the suspects opposed the request for further remand.

However, magistrate Abdul Rehman Yousaf extended physical remand of the officers for four days and directed the ACE to produce them again on July 27.

The ACE alleged the former commissioner and the land acquisition collector were involved in causing over Rs10bn loss to the national exchequer by allowing some big developers of housing societies to establish five interchanges on the Ring Road.

Published in Dawn, July 25th, 2021