PESHAWAR, Nov 23: The special judge anti corruption on Friday convicted a person for acquiring loan on bogus documents from the Provincial Cooperative Bank and sentenced him to 15 years rigorous imprisonment with fine of Rs100,000.

The court presided over by Fazal Subhan Khan ruled that the prosecution had proved its case against the accused Sher Zaman, a resident of Mardan, and the evidence on record connected him with the commission of the offence.

The accused was charged with setting up a cooperative society at Nazeer Korona Mardan in 1994-95. It was claimed by the prosecution that he prepared bogus documents and mentioned properties of one Hakam Khan, who had already expired, in his name.

It was claimed that he applied for loan to the Provincial Cooperative Bank on the basis of the said bogus documents and acquired a loan of Rs200,000. Later, he did not repay the loan and instead became an absconder.

When the bank started recovery of the loan and asked the legal heirs of Hakam Khan to pay the money they informed that he had expired six years ago and had nothing to do with this loan. The accused was charged on different counts of forgery, impersonation and fraud.

The state prosecutor contended that the society was registered by the accused and he had approached the bank for loan. He added that there was no doubt in the involvement of the accused in this crime.

REFERENCE FILED: The National Accountability Bureau (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) has filed a reference before the accountability court against two officials of income tax department including a deputy commissioner for depriving the national exchequer to the tune of Rs2.4 million.

An official of the NAB informed that the reference was filed after completion of investigation and the court would fix date for starting trial against the two suspects later on.

The NAB has alleged that the deputy commissioner income tax, Abbottabad, Ashraf Ali, and an inspector Israr Alai, had recovered money from restaurants, hotels and shops in Mardan district on account of income tax and had not deposited it in the exchequer. It is alleged that the total loss was around Rs2.4 million.

The NAB claimed that the misappropriation of money was a crime punishable under section 9 of the Accountability Bureau Ordinance, 1999.