LARKANA, Oct 14: A presiding officer, Khan Mohammad Wahocho, who was posted at the Khairo Jhtayal polling station in Dokri taluka, was given in police custody on Monday.

He has been accused of having failed to submit the results of a National Assembly seat on the polling day.

The result, sources said, had been announced after collecting result sheets from polling agents.

He was arrested on the orders of the fourth judicial magistrate, the assistant returning officer for NA-205 (Larkana-I) and PS-35 (Larkana-I), police said.

The presiding officer, police added, has been kept at the Market police station. He is a high school teacher posted at the middle school in Kariyo Sabbar village.

“I had submitted the results ... Perhaps the clerical staff had misplaced it,” said the presiding officer while talking to this correspondent. He said that the polling process was entirely transparent.

The police, he said, had visited his village twice before he turned up there. When he returned, he was lodged in the police lock-up.

PPP LEGISLATORS: The elected members of the parliament Friday night offered Fateha and laid wreaths at the grave of the PPP founder, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh Bhutto.

The PPP members of the National Assembly and the Provincial Assembly were led by the chief of the party’s Sindh chapter, Nisar Ahmed Khuhro.

They later visited the residence of the party chairperson, Benazir Bhutto, and held a gathering there.

In their brief speeches, they expressed their determination to serve the country in accordance with the party’s manifesto.