HYDERABAD, Oct 28: A retired teacher accusing district accounts office of harassing and taking bribe from him has appealed for an inquiry into such corrupt practices.
Ghulam Hussain who retired from the Government High School Johi, Dadu pointed towards Dadu district accounts office of taking huge bribe to release his gratuity.
Speaking at a news conference at the press club here on Tuesday, Ghulam Hussain said that he was retired on May 11, 2007, but received gratuity in August and that too, after greasing the palms of district accounts officials.
He said that he deposited relevant documents at the district accounts office in December 2007 for the G.P. Fund but was kept on false promise even though he had paid huge bribe.
“My agony did not end here as I was arrested by Dadu police in a false case for insisting on the payment,” Ghulam Hussain alleged adding that the magistrate took pity on his pathetic condition, reprimanded police and ordered his release on personal bond when produced before the court of judicial magistrate on October 18.
The retired teacher has appealed for justice and asked for constituting an inquiry committee headed by Mr Justice Amir Muslim Hani to investigate the matter.
APPEAL: A man has appealed to authorities to get back truck as per court orders.
Speaking at a news conference at the press club here on Tuesday, Anwar Zaman s/o Ashraf Zaman of Quaid-e-Azam Colony, Unit No. 11 Latifabad, said that a Mazda loading truck No (AH-0168) registered in the name of his father had falsely been transferred in the name of the driver Javed Ahmed in connivance with the officials in Excise Department.
He said that police registered an FIR on December 4, 2006, at A-section police station Latifabad on the intervention of Sindh High Court.
Police arrested the accused but later released him without recovering the truck on the intervention of a high-up.
He said that he got the case transferred to the Crime Branch, wherein the accused was again arrested along with the recovery of truck from Rawalpindi.
He alleged that again the high-up intervened thus blocking the possession of his truck on which the court was moved and once more it ordered truck’s restoration to its legal owner but the order had not been carried out.
He appealed to higher authorities to direct police to give back his truck.
Ashraf Zaman was also present at the news conference.