Land acquisition: NAB KP arrests private person for fraud

National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Thursday arrested Abdul Hashim, private person involved land acquisition fraud for housing scheme at Surezai Bala, Peshawar and caused huge loss to the national exchequer. An investigation into embezzlement in government funds in acquisition of land for Surezai Housing Scheme by Provincial Housing Authority (PHA) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is under progress.
Land owners in Surezai Bala were paid less than the price per kanal fixed as compensation of land by the government. During the process of payment of compensation of land, few land owners were paid twice. During the course of investigation, it was revealed that during the process of acquisition of land by PHA in Surezai Bala Peshawar, accused Abdul Hashim being land owner has illegally received double payments from PHA as compensation of his family land measuring 32 Kanal and 7 marla. He illegally received amount of Rs 37,85,393 despite the fact that his father and other family members had already received payment for land. Hashim presented before the Accountability Court Peshawar and obtained seven days physical remand.