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Five food officials suspended on corruption
charges
GUJRANWALA, April 15: An assistant food controller
and four inspectors were suspended from service
after a scam of the defective wheat procurement
was surfaced in Kamoke on Wednesday.
Punjab Food secretary Shahid Hassan visited the
procurement centre where the AFC and food
officials exchanged heated arguments with him over
the issue of purchasing defective wheat. They also
misconducted with their senior Food official.
Secretary Shahid Hussain ordered an inquiry into
the scam while deputy director Zubair Aslam
suspended AFC Abdul Hai and inspectors Jalil
Ahmad, Muhammad Anwer, Muhammad Riaz and Riaz
Ahmad Khan.
It was stated that they had purchased about 810
defective wheat bags and stored it at the
procurement centre for their onward supply to
floor mills. When contacted, the deputy director
admitted the defective wheat purchase and said the
payment of wheat bags had not been made to
farmers/commission agents of the grain market.
THRASHED:
A Wapda team led by recovery tehsildar was beaten
up by a dozen assailants and got freed a
heavyweight defaulter from its custody in
Jaserwala village on Wednesday.
Gepco's Cantonment circle recovery tehsildar
Muhammad Nasir and his staff went to arrest
furnace owner Muhammad Ashraf for not paying
outstanding dues of Rs8.4 million.
As the recovery team arrested him, about a dozen
assailants attacked the team, thrashed its members
and had him freed from their custody. Police have
registered a case against the accused and are
investigating.
DEATH WARRANTS:
A local court on Wednesday issued death warrants
against a convict in a murder case. The judge
ordered the hanging of the condemned on May 5.
Nawaz had killed his rival Aslam in Wazirabad some
two years ago. The sessions court handed him down
death sentence while the high court and Supreme
Court upheld the decision of the lower court. The
president had also rejected his clemency appeal.
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