The National Accountability Bureau (NAB), after intensifying its operations against land grabbers and miscreants allegedly involved in China-cutting, has arrested two directors and one additional director of Karachi Development Authority (KDA) Abdul Qavi Khan, ex-director KDA Rashid Aqeel, Director Master Plan Muhammad Nasir Sheikh, Additional Director KDA besides a private person Anjum Jameel Siddiqui.
According to a press release issued on Friday, initially a joint investigation team (JIT) comprising of officers of NAB, Pakistan Rangers and FIA was constituted, which mutually shared information about notorious land grabbers and initiated inquiry against the China-cutting mafia. During the inquiry, two prime movers of the scam namely Muhammad Mujeeb Ullah Siddiqui and Faisal Masroor Siddiqui (private persons) were arrested earlier and on their pointation and lead, important documents were collected, which had now further facilitated the arrest of above-stated actual culprits, the directors and additional directors of KDA.
The above-said officers of KDA were allegedly involved in illegal construction and sale/purchase of plots in a housing scheme “University Hill Villas” located at Block-1, Gulistan-e-Johar, Scheme-36, Karachi, on land reserved for water conduit and high tension line of K-Electric.