LAHORE.: An additional district and sessions judge on Monday sought comments from Liaquatabad station house officer by September 6 in a petition seeking registration of case against four men allegedly involved in embezzling funds from an NGO.
Petitioner Shaikh Imtiaz told the court he was running an NGO Al Gohar Educational and Welfare Society.
He said on July 9, when Ramazan started, he made an agreement with Shoaib, Agha Ahmed, Numan Maqsood and Zubair to collect funds for distribution among the poor. They named their fund collection drive Ramazan Ehtimam. He said on July 20, he inquired about the amount of funds collected. He said they denied collecting any funds.
He said after Eid holidays, he received calls from some traders from Azam Cloth Market who told him that they had paid Rs100,000 to his colleagues.
He said another man Mirza Ghulam Ali claimed that he had given them Rs500,000.
When he investigated the matter, he said, he found that they had collected around Rs3,000,000 under his NGO’s collection drive but no money was deposited in the NGO’s account.
He told the court that when he demanded return of the funds they had collected, they began threatening him.
He said he then approached the SHO but he did not take him seriously.
He asked the court to direct the SHO to register case against the accused.