Daily Times

Karachi: The Sindh High Court on Wednesday has extended the interim bail granted to former Inspector General Sindh Police Ghulam Haider Jamali and other police officers in NAB reference filed against the officer for alleged illegal appointments in SRP Hyderabad.

A division bench of the high court heard the bail application of the police officers. Jamali and others appeared before the court.

NAB prosecutor told the court that the Bureau had completed investigation into the illegal appointments and a reference has already filed in the court

The court extended the interim bail granted to the former IGP Sindh and other till September 27, 2017.

The National Accountability Bureau had filed the reference against Ghulam Haider Jamali, the former inspector general of Sindh police, and other police officers.

The former IGP and then finance AIG Fida Hussain Shah and six other police officials which have been accused of allegedly making illegal appointments by misusing their authority in the Sindh Reserve Police (SRP), Hyderabad, causing a loss of over Rs50 million to the national exchequer.

Initially, the Supreme Court had appointed three-member fact-finding committee to identify illegalities in recruitments and later, in the light of the committees` recommendations, the apex court had referred the matter to NAB to investigate it.

The reference said that former IG Jamali, AIG Shah, then training DIG Sahab Mazhar Bhalli, then Sindh Reserve Police ADIG Aitezaz Ahmed Goraya, then West SSP retired Captain Ghulam Azfar Mahesar, then Matiari district SP Amjad Ahmed Shaikh, Kashmore district SP Umar Tufail and then Tharparkar district SP Khalid Mustafa Korai were allegedly involved in illegal recruitments in the SRP, Hyderabad.

It added that some 881 appointments were made illegalay. The appointments were made against vacant posts of constables, computer operators and others.

Published in Daily Times, August 17^th 2017.