ISLAMABAD: The Anti-Corruption Circle (ACC) of the Federal Investigation Agency has registered a first information report (FIR) against Najaf Hameed, former Halqa Patwari of Mouza Pind Parian, and his alleged accomplices.
Najaf Hameed is brother of former Inter Services Intelligence director general Faiz Hameed. The legal action follows an exhaustive inquiry into a sophisticated land scam, marking a decisive move by the agency to address long-standing grievances of property fraud within the capital’s revenue jurisdiction.
The investigation, formalised under Enquiry No 229/2023, unraveled a deception scheme orchestrated by Najaf Hameed in active connivance with Abdul Zahoor, a revenue officer, and Khalid Munir, a private individual from Sargodha. The trio is accused of manipulating official land records to deprive a citizen, Mulazim Hussain, of his lawful property rights.
The fraud dates back to late 2009, when the accused allegedly fabricated a property ownership certificate and a subsequent registry to transfer one kanal of land. Despite the issuance of official mutation papers approved by the revenue hierarchy in early 2010, the documents were later discovered to be part of a calculated ruse.
The breakthrough came in late 2022, when the complainant, seeking a fresh ownership certificate, discovered that only ten marlas of land were registered in his name instead of the full kanal he had legally acquired.
The FIA’s probe determined that the suspects had issued bogus registry and mutation entries to conceal the shortfall, effectively embezzling a significant portion of the land’s value through documentation forgery.
Confirming the development, ACC Deputy Director Afzal Khan Niazi stated that the agency is now moving to secure arrest warrants from the court to initiate formal custodial investigations.
The case has been registered under several stringent sections of the Pakistan Penal Code, including 409 (Criminal breach of trust by public servant), 420 (Cheating), 468 (Forgery for the purpose of cheating), and 471 (Using as genuine a forged document), read alongside the Prevention of Corruption Act. While the primary suspects have been named, the FIA maintains that the scope of the investigation remains open to identify any further administrative facilitators involved in the scam.
