QUETTA, Dec 2: Police arrested here on Monday eight officials of the Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL), Quetta, for corruption.

After the arrest, they were produced before an accountability court which remanded them in the judicial custody.

Official sources said their arrest warrants had been issued by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) after a probe against them.

They said the NAB had received information about the involvement of some PTCL officials in gross corruption and during the probe found some low-cadre employees and two officers involved in malpractice.

The NAB dug out that the accused had provided telephone connections to various people violating the procedure laid down to enjoy the facility.

The persons in whose names telephones were installed had never applied for the facility. Addresses and photographs appearing on photocopies of their identity cards, which had been submitted as formality, were also fake. Moreover, the premises where telephones were installed had never been verified.

The accused in connivance with each other got installed 18 new telephone connections, which were heavily misused and caused around Rs4. 5 million to the government exchequer.—Staff Correspondent