Court adjourns corruption hearing against Sindh's former police chief

KARACHI: An Accountability Court on Saturday adjourned the hearing of corruption reference filed against  former Inspector General of Sindh Police, Ghulam Haider Jamali and other officials until November 10.  

As per a communique issued by the National Accountability Bureau, Mr. Jamali, then AIG Finance Fida Hussain Shah and other senior police officers have been named in a corruption reference over alleged illegal appointment of 881 personnel in Sindh Reserve Police, causing a loss of more than Rs 500 million to the national exchequer.

At the outset of hearing in the NAB court today, the counsel of Ghulam Haider Jamali continued cross examination of witness in the graft reference.

Later, the court adjourned the hearing until November 10 after ordering defence counsel to continue quizzing the witness in the reference.

Ghulam Haider Jamali and other senior officers of Sindh Police department were indicted over corruption charges on October 30, 2017.

It was alleged in the reference that Jamali and other police officers misused their authority and circumvented the required procedure to make illegal appointments in Sindh Reserve Police.

Ghulam Haider Jamali was sacked as IGP Sindh in May 2016, after the Supreme Court ordered NAB to probe alleged corruption in Sindh police.

The NAB had carried out an investigation into the matter in the light of a report of three-member fact-finding committee, which was appointed by the Supreme Court to investigate irregularities in recruitment in the Sindh police department.

On October 30, the anti-graft watchdog said that the bureau is investigating Chief Minister, Syed Murad Ali Shah, former minister for Ports and Shipping Babar Khan Ghauri, former adviser to prime minister for ministry of Oil and Natural Resources Asim Hussain, Speaker Sindh Assembly Agha Siraj Durrani, Suhail Anwar Siyal, Jam Khan Shoro, former Sindh Police Chief, Ghulam Haider Jamali and others.