CDA officer dismissed, two staffers demoted in land scam case.

ISLAMABAD -- The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has dismissed an officer of the land directorate and demoted two others for their involvement in illegal allotment of 59 plots in D-13.

The CDA, following an inquiry report, sacked former deputy director land Taimoor Ahmed and demoted an assistant director and a sub-assistant.

Sources said the management also wanted to take action against former director land Fariduddin, but he obtained a stay order from court in his favour. The CDA management decided that his dismissal order will be subject to the court decision.

Recently, the CDA also took action against some officers of the planning wing and removed them from their position for mishandling an operation against a marquee.

In October 2019, the scandal involving allotment of 59 residential plots in D-13 surfaced and CDA Chairman Amer Ali Ahmed suspended the then director land Fariduddin.

The director and his staffers, despite orders from the then member estate, had allotted the plots without conducting balloting.

Scandal involving allotment of 59 plots in D-13 without balloting surfaced in October last year

CDA's 2017 standard operating procedure (SOP) prepared by the then chairman of the civic authority, clearly stated:

'After principle approval of case from member estate, plots will be allotted through manual open balloting in the presence of two members of CDA board. Date of balloting will be advertised in at least three leading newspapers.'

However, in the case of D-13, the land directorate skipped the balloting process and allotted 59 plots. The sources said most of the corner plots and plots located at ideal places in the sector were allotted on the basis of so-called provisional allotment letters.

After the 2017 SOP, sources said, hundreds of plots were allotted by the land directorate skipping the balloting...