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Published 14 Feb, 2012 11:34pm

Two KDA officials booked for land fraud

KOHAT, Feb 14: Two officials of Kohat Development Authority (KDA) have been booked for depriving three plot owners of their land by tampering the revenue record, it was learnt officially.

An official of the regional anti-corruption office, Kohat told Dawn on Tuesday on telephone they had received an application on January 1, 2012 from the district complaint cell to conduct inquiry into the missing of the official record of the plots.

During investigation it had been disclosed that the housing officer of KDA, Attaullah Khattak, and his office superintendent Mohammad Aamir Hussain had allegedly sold the said three plots and removed the office record thus depriving the owners of their possession rights.

The case had been registered against the accused officers under various sections of the PPC for the recovery of record to restore the ownership rights to the legal buyers.

RESERVED SEATS: The district amir of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (Ideological) has termed the ‘selection’ of women on reserved seats as a negation of true democracy and demanded that the existing system should be abolished.

He alleged that the capitalists had started sending their daughters and sisters on reserved seats in an undemocratic way to protect their wealth and hide corruption.

In a press release issued here on Tuesday, the amir of JUI-I, Pir Niaz Ali Shah, said women and men had equal rights of voting, therefore, the former should also come in the assemblies through public polling.

He contested that when a member of parliament came in the assemblies on reserved seats then she had no concern about the people of her constituency. Therefore, the women should also be elected so that they were aware of the problems of the masses and had fear of going back to them after completion of terms.

SHOT DEAD: A man allegedly killed his sister-in-law inside her home in Garhi Rauf Khan on Hangu road on Tuesday.

The city police station said Omer Fayyaz shot dead his 20-year-old sister-in-law with a pistol. The motive behind the killing could not be known.

The police shifted the body to the KDA divisional headquarters hospital for autopsy and later handed it over to the relatives.

Khyal Akbar, father of the deceased, registered a case against his own son, who disappeared after committing the crime. The city police started raids for arrest of the accused.

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