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Two officials arrested for corruption

By our correspondents
March 10, 2017

LAHORE

Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE), Punjab, Thursday arrested two officials of Punjab Irrigation Department on charges of corruption.

According to a spokesman for the ACE, the arrested accused were identified as Latafat Qaseem, SE Irrigation Department, Abdul Razzaq, SDO Mechanical Irrigation Workshop, Mughalpura, Lahore, in connection with embezzlement of Rs 18 crore in case FIR No 4/16 and 06/16. The spokesman said that Abid Hussain Zaidi, XEN Irrigation Department, was already in jail in the same case.