Pakistan Wheat crisis
Pakistan: 11 booked for stealing 8,000 free flour bags
Police in Pakistan's Chiniot City police have registered a case against 11 people, including a revenue patwari, for embezzling 8,000 flour bags, media reports said on Monday.
The police have booked patwari Omair Nawaz, civil defence official Iqbal, Mulsim Flour Mills’ employee Zeeshan Ali, Mulazim Hussain, Amjad Hussain, Farooq Azam, Munawar Hussain, Fakhar Imam, Shaukat Ali, Sarfraz Ahmad, and Manzar Abbas on the application of assistant commissioner office’s clerk Muhammad Hassan, reports Dawn News.
According to the FIR lodged at the city police station under Sections 420 and 408 of the Pakistan Penal Code, some fake tokens were caught at a flour distribution point at the Government Islamia College, Chiniot, the Pakistani newspaper reported.
An investigation revealed that Omair Nawaz was in charge of the record of tokens being issued to recipients of bags.
He confessed to embezzling 7,000 to 8,000 tokens, resulting in a loss to the national exchequer to the tune of Rs5 million to Rs6 million.
Police have also arrested four people, and raids are on to arrest the remaining people.
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