LAKKI MARWAT, Dec 4: Anti-corruption circle registered a forgery and treachery case against some officials of the settlement department.

Some relatives of Begum Jana, widow of Nawab Ali Khan, of Gandi Khan Khel, had submitted an application with the anti-corruption authorities.

She said her husband’s relatives had illegally transferred their hereditary agriculture land worth millions, situated in circle Gandi Khan Khel, to their names.

She said that in 1997 the accused in connivance with some of her own relatives and the settlement officers had forged the land documents by putting on papers the thumb impression of some woman.

The anti-corruption authorities sent the thumb impression to a laboratory for verification. The authorities found that the applicant’s allegations were based on facts.

A counterfeiting and fraud report was registered against Tehsildar Sher Mohammad, Girdaur, Shahnawaz and Patwari Juma Khan; and the relatives of the applicant, Khan Maluk, Jamil Khan, Mohammad Ali, Inayatullah, Hayatullah and Noor Aslam.

SMUGGLED CLOTH: Lakki Marwat police recovered huge quantity of foreign cloth worth hundreds of thousands of rupees being smuggled to Punjab via Daraa Tang from Miran Shah, Bannu and Lakki Marwat.

Tipped off, the police condoned off the Lakki Marwat-Mianwali Road. They stopped the bus and recovered one dozen sacks filled with the cloth.

Accused Nazar Mohammad (Miran Shah), Abdul Hakim Mohmand (Faisalabad), Abdul Hamid Daur (Durpa Khel) and Shahbaz and Akhia Khan, both Afghan refugees, were arrested.

The police registered the case.