Daily Times

LOWER DIR: Sardar Zaman Babar, the suspended superintendent of Timergara Jail, has rejected an inquiry report, under which the chief minister suspended seven officials of the Haripur Central Prison. Talking to this scribe at his residence in the Civil Quarters at Timergara prison, Sardar Zaman Babar said that he had not involved in the fake educational remission of any prisoner at Haripur Jail. He wondered that despite open confession of the warder Obaid Ahmed that he alone was responsible for the fake educational remission, the authorities suspended them while the main culprit was at large and the authorities did not bother even to lodge first information report (FIR) against him. “The authorities should have first arrested the warder who confessed to have committed the crime and should have forced him to reveal the name of his accomplices,” Babar said. He accused the inquiry team of deliberately involving them in the fake educational remission. “The new inquiry committee should focus on initiators of fraud who betrayed their own officers and earned a bad name to them and the department,” he said and suggested the committee to personally interrogate the main culprit Obaid Ahmad, besides using other means to make the truth public. Sardar Zaman Babar said that Superintendent Khalid Abbas was punished for reporting the matter to the IG as he said that had he not reported the matter to the IG prisons, it would have continued for unknown time. “In my 30 years career, I never embezzled a single penny and now when I am near retirement, my reputation has been deliberately damaged,” Babar said, adding that he was ready to present himself for any punishment if he was found guilty.