SIALKOT: Anti Corruption Establishment (ACE) has issued arrest warrants of 13 officials of different government departments including four accused Patwaries for their early arrest in separate corruption and fraud cases registered against them by the Anti Corruption Establishment (ACE) for corruption, bribe, misuse of official powers and fraud.
Sources told Customs Today that the ACE had conducted detailed inquiries against the said accused belonging to Sialkot, Narowal, Gujrat, Mandi Bahaud Din, Hafizabad and Gujranwala districts, which were found guilty.
Sources further told that the accused Deputy District Officer Road Sialkot Khalid Mehmood, Sub Engineer Rana Nadeem and road inspector Malik Iftikhar had tempered the official record after the theft of official asphalt , which had been stolen a big quantity from Sialkot. When, the ACE started probe in this matter, the said accused officials had tempered the official record, in this regard.
Director ACE Gujranwala Division Rana Abdul Shakur has also issued orders of early arrest of Sialkot based four accused Patwaries Iftikhar Nagra, Abdul Hanan, Ikram Haider and Faryad Ali in separate cases registered against them for issuing the fake documents of the land revenue records through fraud after taking big amounts as bribe.
Meanwhile, the ACE has also conducted separate detailed inquiries against accused sub inspector Muhammad Shafi and ASI Muhammad Nawaz (deputed at Aroop police station) for tempering into official record of a case, accused clerk Malik Ghulam Raza (deputed at Sialkot DCO office) for taking Rs.10,000 as bribe, accused Naib Qasid Afzal of local government department for fraud, employee Abid Raza (deputed at the office of DDO (Health) Gujranwala) for taking Rs 5000 and against accused Saad Afrasiyab (deputed at Kharian Saddar police station related court) for displacing official record of an important case.
He said that ACE has also declared these accused officials as guilty and ordered to register separate cases against them.
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