BAHAWALPUR, June 9: A fraud of over Rs26.8 million has been detected in the Farid Gate branch of the United Bank (UBL). Kotwali police registered a case on the report of manager Ajmal Khan on Friday and arrested the main accused, Rizwan Ahmad, in charge of electronic transfers and recovered from him Rs12.9 million.

According to the FIR, Rizwan, along with staff members Anwar, Irfan, Rab Nawaz, Mumtaz, Allah Baksh, Muhammad Ashfaq and others allegedly withdrew the amount.

Police are raiding to arrest the remaining accused.

The manager apprehended that more frauds by this gang could be unearthed after thorough scrutiny of the accounts of the clients.

SUMMONED: The election tribunal has summoned federal parliamentary secretary MNA Sardar Amir Yar Warren on June 15 to hear the writ petition against his graduation degree issued by the Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai University.

It is learnt that Junaid Ahmad Sandha challenged the degree in 2003. Later, vice-chancellor and controller of the university informed the election tribunal that Amir Yar was not a commerce graduate from this university. At this, the tribunal summoned Amir Yar and allowed Hafiz Hafeez Ahmad, a union council naib nazim to become a co-petitioner.