SIALKOT, Aug 10: Dissolution of the Citizen-Police Liaison Committee by the district government has caused rift between officials of the two. Talking to newsmen on Tuesday, Sialkot CPLC senior vice-chairman Mirza Imtiaz Ahmad said the district government was not authorized to dissolve the committee.
He said the committee was smoothly functioning and would continue to work as such. He urged the Punjab government to take stock of the situation. It is learnt that both sides held emergency meetings to review the situation after the district government's decision.
Sialkot District Nazim Mian Naeem Javed said the matter would be brought into the notice of Punjab Governor Khalid Maqbool as soon as he returned from Saudi Arabia.
INQUIRY: On the order of the Lahore High Court, an inquiry team of the Punjab Anti-Corruption Establishment continued on Tuesday inquiry into alleged loss of Rs5 million caused to the government by the Daska Tehsil Municipal Administration.
The TMA had allegedly allotted the contract of property transfer fees to a favourite. Headed by Gujranwala region ACE Deputy-Director Chaudhry Muhammad Jamil, the team recorded the statements of 13 contractors, Daska Tehsil Nazim Chaudhry Ijaz Ahmad Cheema and TMA's accountant Rana Ghulam Mustafa.
A local contractor, Mahmood Ahmad Warriach, had submitted a writ petition with the LHC, claiming that the Dask TMA awarded the property transfer fees contract to Muneer Gill for Rs17.2 million by violating all the auction rules.
The petitioner said he had made the highest bid of Rs22 million for this contract, but the Daska TMA awarded this to its favourite contractor. The LHC chief justice directed ACE director-general Brig Muhammad Aslam Ghuman to submit a detailed inquiry report to LHC on Aug 12, 2004.
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