LAHORE, Dec 27: The Member Inspection Team of the Lahore High Court has initiated an inquiry against a senior civil judge, Amir Habib, on charges of embezzlement of funds.

The LHC administration had issued Rs5 million to Habib during his posting in Faisalabad in 2010 for the purchase of computers and furniture for civil judges. Contrary to the instructions, the judge had procured laptops instead of desktop computers and kept six for personal use.

The judge also misappropriated the funds by showing the per laptop price as Rs80,000, whereas the market price was just Rs30,000.

The MIT confiscated all the laptops along with complete record and sought an explanation from Habib.

Transferred: The Lahore High Court on Thursday transferred and posted three senior civil judges and two additional district and sessions judges.

The civil judges included Shahzada Masud Sadiq transferred from Sialkot to Lahore, Irfan Saeed from Mianwali to Sialkot, and Nasir Javed Rana from Pattoki to Mianwali.

AD&SJs Muhammad Ata and Muhammad Saeed were transferred and posted from Haroonabad to Bahawalnagar and Muhammad Saeed from Bahawalnagar to Haroonabad.