Qamar Ul Islam Raja custody handed over to NAB

احتساب عدالت لاہور نے صاف پانی کمپنی کیس میں قمر الاسلام راجہ اور وسیم اجمل کا پھر جسمانی ریمانڈ منظور کرتے ہوئے 6اگست تک نیب کے حوالے کر دیا،احتساب عدالت کے جج منیر احمد نے صاف پانی کمپنی ا سکینڈل سے متعلق کیس پرسماعت کی، ملزم قمرالاسلام اور سابق سی ای اوصاف پانی کمپنی وسیم اجمل کو 14روزہ ریمانڈ ختم ہونے پر عدالت میں پیش کیا گیا،نیب پراسیکیوٹر نے موقف اختیار کیا کہ ملزمان کی بدنیتی کے باعث پراجیکٹ کی لاگت 129 ارب سے 190 ارب تک پہنچی اور قومی خزانے کو 12 کروڑ کا نقصان پہنچالہذا مزید ریمانڈ دیا جائے،احتساب عدالت کے روبرو ملزم قمرالاسلام راجہ نے اپنے بیان میں کہا کہ صاف پانی کا 5 مرتبہ چیئرمین تبدیل ہوا، ان کا کردار معاملے میں سب کی رائے لینا تھا، انہیں انتقامی کارروائی کا نشانہ بنایا جا رہا ہے۔ احتساب عدالت لاہور نے سستی موٹرسائیکل کے نام سےاربوں روپے کے فراڈ میں ملوث 15 ملزمان کے جسمانی ریمانڈ اور 6 کے جوڈیشل ریمانڈ میں توسیع کر دی ۔

Rawalpindi; Qamar Ul Islam Raja along with Waseem Ajal was brought to Lahore High court and were handed over to NAB for further investigation until 6th August. An accountability court on Tuesday granted 14-day physical remand of former top officials of the Punjab’s Saaf Pani Company – Engineer Qamarul Islam Raja and Waseem Ajmal Chaudhry – in a case pertaining to the alleged financial irregularities in the company.

Mr. Raja – former chairman of the company – was taken into custody by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Monday hours after his nomination as candidate of the PML-N from NA-59 and PP-10 Rawalpindi constituencies.

He has been fielded against disgruntled party leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on NA-59.The Bureau in a statement said Raja, who was one of the members of the company’s procurement committee, allegedly awarded contracts of 84 water treatment plants at excessive rates to favourites.

It said: “In a deceitful manner, the accused (Raja) enhanced the estimates of amounts of plants in bidding documents and later awarded the contract to the KSP Pumps Company as in-charge procurement committee.”

Mr. Chaudhry – former CEO of the Company, had allegedly changed the bidding documents of projects after completion of the bidding process in violation of Punjab Procurement Rules 2014.

He is also accused of illegally approving the installation of eight filtration plants at Tehsil Dunyapur.

It merits mention here that the Supreme Court had ordered a probe into the Saaf Pani Company after Punjab Chief Secretary Zahid Saeed revealed that a single drop of water couldn’t be made available to the people of the province despite the government having spent Rs4 billion on the Saaf Pani Project.

The chief secretary told the judges that so far Rs4 billion had been spent on Punjab Saaf Pani Company (PSPC), set up with an aim to ensure supply of potable water to the people, but not a single drop of water could be supplied.

The chief justice of Pakistan reiterated that everyone will be held to account and that he will ensure every single penny of public money is returned to the national exchequer.