Misusing authority: Former MNA arrested in land fraud case
Mushtaq was inaugurated from NA-19 Haripur in 2008 on a PML-N celebration sheet though jumped boat to join PPP after being indicted of land fraud and continual nuisance from NAB. PHOTO: FILE
HARIPUR: The Khyber-Pakhtunkwa Ehtesab Commission on Friday arrested a former Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz parliamentarian on charges of impasse in a multi-million rupee land scam.
Ex-MNA Sardar Muhammad Mushtaq Khan was taken into control for review and is set to seem before a Ehtesab Judge, Peshawar, for earthy remand currently (Saturday).
Sources during a Ehtesab Commission told The Express Tribune that a National Accountability Bureau had formerly conducted an exploration into a box relating to a sale of land to Workers Welfare Board K-P during 2010. But a box was after brushed aside after Mushtaq assimilated Pakistan Peoples Party.
Two identical petitions were filed opposite a former parliamentarian before a Abbottabad dais accusing him of misusing his management and offered his personal land from his local village, Kot Najeebullah, to Workers Welfare Board K-P for a construction of a work colony, during aloft rates and allegedly causing a inhabitant exchequer a detriment of Rs140 million.
A former eccentric claimant Waqar Shah and a former kinship nazim Riaz Khan, purported in their petitions that Mushtaq disregarded Article 62 E of a Constitution and sought his permanent disqualification. The box was after discharged underneath a understanding with a PPP govt.
Shah had progressing also filed an focus seeking a registration of a rapist box opposite a ex-MNA underneath territory 22 A, though that too was deserted by a district and sessions justice Haripur during 2010.
Mushtaq was inaugurated from NA-19 Haripur in 2008 on a PML-N celebration sheet though jumped boat to join PPP after being indicted of land fraud and continual nuisance from NAB. The ex-MNA after assimilated PML-N after being degraded in a 2013 elections.
Published in The Express Tribune, Oct 1st, 2016.
Article source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/1191590/misusing-authority-former-mna-arrested-land-scam-case/