Anti-Corruption Establishment Starts Probe Into 4 Land-grabbing Cases In Sargodha

The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) Sargodha has launched investigation into four land-grabbing cases in which thousands of acres of the government land had been occupied.

SARGODHA, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 12th Oct, 2018 ) :The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) Sargodha has launched investigation into four land-grabbing cases in which thousands of acres of the government land had been occupied.

According to details, Regional Director (ACE) Sargodha Asim Raza had received information that Kohinoor Sugar Mills had been in illegal possession of 4 acres, 7 kanals and 8 marlas land of the Housing Department in Khushab since 1971, said an official.

In another case, 5,000-kanal land of Revenue Department had been allotted by the officials of the department to their relatives illegally, and an inquiry was under way in this regard.

The official said that a Federal government piece of land had been allotted to one Abdul Shakoor on June 2003, decalring it provincial land. He said that 200-kanal government land situated at Chak 128 Sillanwali had also been occupied by an education Department clerk, Zafar Iqbal, illegally and got transferred in his name.

The regional director had ordered inquiries in all four cases and assigned the investigation officers.