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Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Anjum Aqeel sent on three-day physical remand
By Ali Hassan
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) MNA Anjum Aqeel Khan on Monday was sent on a three-day physical remand by Civil Judge and Judicial Magistrate Rai Liaqat Ali Kharal in a land dispute case with a schoolteacher and handed him over to the Shalimar Police Station.
Separately, the same court had also declared Khan, an absconder in the same case on July 16. Later, the court summoned Aqeel Khan a number of times but he did not appear before the court, as a result of which the court declared him as a proclaimed offender.
An FIR vide 115/10 under section 406/409 was registered with the Shalimar Police Station against Khan regarding embezzlement and fraud while selling National Police Foundation plots.
The complainant, Sabahat Ali, working as a teacher at the Centre of Professional Excellence at the moment, claimed that he had been requesting the MNA for the last many years to give him the plot, but Khan had refused to do so. He said that at the moment, the value of his plot was Rs 6 million. According to the FIR, MNA Khan had sold a plot number, 834 measuring 25 by 60 feet located on a double road in Sector E-11 to a school teacher, Sabahat Ali, and received Rs 1 million from him. However, even after 15 years, the MNA had not given the plot to Ali because of which an FIR had been registered against him.
On Monday, Shalimar Police Station officials produced Khan before the court and informed it that the MNA was wanted by the police in the case since a long time, but utilising his political and legal influences he had managed to exclude himself from legal proceedings.
The official also informed that MNA Khan was the main accused in the National Police Foundation (NPF) land scandal and the complainant had also purchased a plot from him. The officials said that there were a total of 100 plots sold by Khan at the NPF land, but the victims had not come forward to file cases against the MNA due to his political affiliation.
The defence counsel, Raja Inam Minhas, argued that Khan was not the only one responsible in the NPF land scandal, as there were other elements involved as well who had bargained the sale and purchase of plots, while the MNA was only responsible for brokering the deals, as all the plots were registered in his name.
In the court, Khan said that he have nothing to do with the land scandal case and the complainant who had filed the case against him, had not deposited the full instalment of the plot, that is why the plot had not been registered in his name.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk