IG suspends two accountants for busting 600 ghost cops

Lahore: IG Punjab Aftab Sultan has suspended Lahore police’s two former accountants who had busted six hundreds ghost cops and recovered 50 millions from them.

According to the sources in April 2009 Accountant Hasan Muhammad Khan unearth a big scam of ghost cops who were taking salaries and allowances from public exchequer.CCPO Lahore of that time Pervaiz Rathor ordered to stop the salaries of all the ghost cops and constitute an inquiry committee to recovered the amount from the culprits.

The Inquiry Committee recovered took back fifteen millions from the ghosts and also registered a criminal case against a widow Masoma Begum of a late sub-inspector Muhammad Naeem who was receiving not only the pension but also the salary of her husband.Two traffic wardens who used to be worked as constables found guilty of receiving double salaries,one for warden and other for constable,70 ASI’s were getting salaries of their current status and special allowances for constables.
After this scam,the inquiry team got on-line access from PIFRA( a body that deals in computer system of AG Office Punjab).This action restrained the ghost cops to get salaries anymore.This wonderful job was made good name for the accountant Hasan Khan but he was punished and sent on forceful leave for 120 days rather to rewarded.

Later, Muhammad Bilal who was posted on the seat of Lahore Police accountant continued t work on this job and recovered 35 millions from the ghost cops in two years.He was also punished and transferred to DIG Investigation office.

Few months before,CCPO office sent the inquiry report to the office of the Inspector General Police Punjab,and the AIG Tanveer Ahmad gave punishment of Censure to former Accountant Hasan Khan for lake of supervision.He appealed against to the IGP Haji Habib ur Rehman who who became astonished to know that the man who unearth the scam,was being punished.IG Haji Habib ur Rehman not only accepted the appeal and abolish the punishment but also commented that Hasan Khan should be rewarded rather to be punished.

Few weeks before,IGP Aftab Sultan constituted two members Inquiry Committee conspiring DIG Establishment Javaid Saleemi and AIG D & I Dr Rizwan. This Committee recommended to review the role of all the DDO’s(drawing and dispersing officers) of Lahore Police including former CCPO Malik Muhammad Iqbal,SSP Administration Ch Shafique Ahmad,Mazhar Farooq Khan,Imran Arshad and Arslan Malik.It was amazing that senior police officers again take action against the accountant rather to take action against the DDO’s. Six days before,present IG Aftab Sultan transferred Hasan Khan to CTDT and today he and the other accountant Muhammad Bilal suspended for busting 600 ghost cops.

According to the police sources ,around 10 million are paying to ghost cops every month,if the inquiry is being done on merit than many so called honest senior police officers would be charged for embezzling public money.