An additional district and sessions judge has sought comments from the Old Anarkali SHO by May 28 on a petition filed by a Greek woman seeking a case against six people for alleged fraud in a property sale.
Petitioner Aliki Mougiou told the court that Syed Intizar Hussain Shah, who lived in an apartment near her house in Greece, invited her to invest in property in Pakistan, saying she could make very good profit on it.
She said that on September 4, 2003, she gave Shah 8,000 euros (then worth Rs513,920) and on November 9, 2003, 9,000 euros (Rs578,160) to buy a plot in Pakistan. Shah told her that she would need to go to Pakistan to pay the remaining amount and to collect the property registration documents.
The petitioner visited Pakistan on January 23, 2004, and Syed Adeel Shehzad, Syed Nazeer Hussain Shah and Mumtaz Ahmed received her at the airport and took her to a hotel in Old Anarkali.
She said Nazeer Shah took 10,000 euros (Rs727,200) from her and she was taken the next day to Malikwal in Mandi Bahauddin district to look at a one-kanal plot of land. She was then given what she was told was the registration document for the plot.
Mougiou then returned to Greece.
Several years later, she said, she decided to sell the plot and tried to get in touch with her Pakistani contacts.
But they made various excuses to delay the sale and she became suspicious, she said, so she visited Pakistan again on May 17.
She told the court that she took the registration document to the department concerned and was told that it was a forgery.
She then visited the Old Anarkali SHO to lodge a complaint against Intizar Shah, Adeel Shehzad, Nazeer Shah, Pervez Iqbal, Mumtaz Ahmed and Shafaqat Raza, but the SHO refused to register an FIR.
She asked the court to direct the SHO to register case against the six men.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 26th, 2013.