Babus demanding bribe to vet house possessions
ISLAMABAD: The government departments, it seems, have avowed to irritate citizens instead of facilitating them. A fresh example of the above-said attitude is the case of a flat/quarter that is not being handed over to its bona fide allottee without bribe. The officials at estate office instead of releasing the quarter from illegal possession for its legal allottee, are asking for the bribe, claimed by the victim.
The documents reveal that Zia Ullah Khan, working as Stenographer in the Ministry of Privatization on deputation basis, was allotted a quarter vide estate office Letter No. 9/7-D, G-9/2/EII/EO, on which he obtained protective stay order from the court of civil judge.
On that time, the house was in the possession of Arif Khan, who was working as statistical assistant at the Federal Bureau of Statistics. It is revealed in the documents that Arif Khan was getting retired on June 15, 2012, while he was granted a grace period of six months to handover the quarter to its new allottee.
“On December 14, after the expiry of the grace period for handing over the possession of the quarter, I forwarded an application requesting to handover the possession of the quarter peacefully, but then I came to know that during past the grace period, the quarter was illegally re-allotted to a charge nurse of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences,” said Zia Ullah Khan, the victim. He said that he visited Malik Noman Langrial, the then Minister of State for Housing, several time to bring the issue into his notice.
“The minister directed to inquire the issue and submit the inquiry report within three days. Although it had been confirmed during the inquiry that I was the real allottee of the quarter while the allotment letter of the nurse was declared bogus, the inquiry report was never submitted to the minister despite his orders,” said Zia.
He said after visiting the office again and again, the estate office finally issued a notice on January 3, 2013, to the current possessor of the quarter directing him to handover the possession of the quarter within 24 hours, but all in vain.
He claimed that now the official of the estate office as well as the police instead of providing him justice has joined their hands with the illegal possessor and demanded him bribe.
“When Arif failed to handover the possession of the quarter despite the notice issued, I approached to the enforcement cell of the estate office and requested to release the quarter from his possession but they refused to provide any sort of assistance, while Joint Estate Officer Ayub Khan, Inspector Sarfraz and Sub-Inspector Tahir hameed demanded twenty thousand rupees for vacation of the subject quarter, which I paid to Mr Ayub Kahn, they did nothing,” said Zia.
He said after two months, he again visited Mr Ayub with the same request but he again demanded even higher amount of bribe through his middle man.
“Mr Ayub along with his enforcement staff namely Inspector Sarfraz and Sub-Inspector Tahir Hameed demanded me rupees 100,00 through Assistant Sub-Inspector Asghar Ali of Margala Police Station, for releasing the quarter from illegal possession, which I refused.
The documents reveal that Zia Ullah Khan, working as Stenographer in the Ministry of Privatization on deputation basis, was allotted a quarter vide estate office Letter No. 9/7-D, G-9/2/EII/EO, on which he obtained protective stay order from the court of civil judge.
On that time, the house was in the possession of Arif Khan, who was working as statistical assistant at the Federal Bureau of Statistics. It is revealed in the documents that Arif Khan was getting retired on June 15, 2012, while he was granted a grace period of six months to handover the quarter to its new allottee.
“On December 14, after the expiry of the grace period for handing over the possession of the quarter, I forwarded an application requesting to handover the possession of the quarter peacefully, but then I came to know that during past the grace period, the quarter was illegally re-allotted to a charge nurse of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences,” said Zia Ullah Khan, the victim. He said that he visited Malik Noman Langrial, the then Minister of State for Housing, several time to bring the issue into his notice.
“The minister directed to inquire the issue and submit the inquiry report within three days. Although it had been confirmed during the inquiry that I was the real allottee of the quarter while the allotment letter of the nurse was declared bogus, the inquiry report was never submitted to the minister despite his orders,” said Zia.
He said after visiting the office again and again, the estate office finally issued a notice on January 3, 2013, to the current possessor of the quarter directing him to handover the possession of the quarter within 24 hours, but all in vain.
He claimed that now the official of the estate office as well as the police instead of providing him justice has joined their hands with the illegal possessor and demanded him bribe.
“When Arif failed to handover the possession of the quarter despite the notice issued, I approached to the enforcement cell of the estate office and requested to release the quarter from his possession but they refused to provide any sort of assistance, while Joint Estate Officer Ayub Khan, Inspector Sarfraz and Sub-Inspector Tahir hameed demanded twenty thousand rupees for vacation of the subject quarter, which I paid to Mr Ayub Kahn, they did nothing,” said Zia.
He said after two months, he again visited Mr Ayub with the same request but he again demanded even higher amount of bribe through his middle man.
“Mr Ayub along with his enforcement staff namely Inspector Sarfraz and Sub-Inspector Tahir Hameed demanded me rupees 100,00 through Assistant Sub-Inspector Asghar Ali of Margala Police Station, for releasing the quarter from illegal possession, which I refused.
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