PESHAWAR, Jan 30: The home and tribal affairs department has launched an inquiry into the alleged corruption of pay officers in all the law enforcement agencies, sources said here on Thursday.

A five-member committee headed by deputy secretary of home department, Azam Khan, has been formed to initiate the probe.

It will look into the complaints lodged by several employees against the alleged corruption of the pay officials of police, CID, Frontier Reserve Police and traffic police, the sources added.

“The pay officials get their fixed percentage for releasing the travelling and daily allowances and approving some amount from the gratuity funds of the government employees,” sources in police department said.

“For advance payment of TA/DA, the pay officials of these departments get a fixed 50 per cent, and in case of deferred payment they get 20 per cent of the total amount,” they claimed.

“The senior officials receive their TA/DA without having to grease the palms of pay officials. In most cases, they get the amount before their official visits because the pay officials want to keep the high-ups happy and ensure their jobs’ security,” they maintained.

Deputy secretary of home department, Mohammad Ali Khan, had called a meeting of all the pay officials of the law enforcement departments on Tuesday last to provide them with an opportunity to prove their innocence.