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| India-Pakistan |
| 11 officials facing corruption charges await promotion |
| 2008-05-11 |
| Out of the 48 officials waiting to be regularised and promoted to the rank of a Provincial Management Service (PMS) officer in BS-17 against 14 vacant posts, as many as 11 tehsildars of the Punjab Board of Revenue (BoR) are charged with corruption, sources told Daily Times on Friday. According to a record obtained from the Anti-Corruption Establishment (AEC), three of them are posted in Lahore, four in Multan, and one each in Bahawalpur, Rawalpindi, Sargodha and Gujranwala revenue regions as deputy district officer on acting/officiating and current charge bases. Sources within the ACE said that although those BS-16 officials had been facing corruption cases and inquires, they were enjoying lucrative posts. “These officials are eyeing on promotions, as they have ‘connections’ in the power corridors,” the sources added. They said that the department’s promotion committee was likely to meet in a few weeks to consider promotions. Big time support: The sources claimed that political and administrative bigwigs were supporting those 11 officials because they (tehsildars) had allotted state land to them fraudulently. “Five cases were registered against four officers on the charges of corruption, which were proved true, and inquires were initiated against eight officers on solid proofs of corruption, forgery of revenue records and abuse of authority, submitted by various applicants,” the sources said. |
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