LAHORE: Anti-Corruption Establishment Punjab (ACE) on Friday arrested three accused persons including government employees during operations in Rawalpindi, Muzaffargarh and Kot Addu.
According to the spokesperson, ACE arrested Patwari Sajid Mahmood red handed from Rawalpindi and also recovered tainted notes during an operation. The accused received a bribe of Rs50,000 from a citizen for correcting land records in the documents of Revenue department.
In an operation in Kot Addu, ACE has arrested a Patwari’s Munshi on the charges of altering revenue records. Fake stamps, government documents and some pages of Register of Mutations were also recovered from his possession. Abdul Razzaq is Patwari’s Munshi who has been associated with Patwar Khana for 30 years in Kot Addu. With the help of Abdul Razzaq, another accused named in the same case, Noor Daraz Khan, who has already been arrested, registered a fake transfer of 96 Marla hereditary land of the complainant to his name.
A Proclaimed Offered (PO) named in the FIR of fraudulently obtaining 135 kanals of land has been arrested from Muzaffargarh after 13 years. The accused was declared a PO in 2009 for not following the case while Patwari Abdul Jabbar, named in the case, has already been arrested. Accused Mohammad Sadiq, with the connivance of Patwari Abdul Jabbar transferred the land of a deceased person to his name by showing her alive in government record of revenue.