Ex-HDA housing society administrator jailed for six years in land scam case.

HYDERABAD -- AccountAaAbility Court HydAerAaAbad judge Inam Ali KalAhoro on Wednesday sentenced the forAmer administrator of the HyderAabad DevAelopAment AutAhAoArity (HDA) EmploAyees CooperaAtive Housing SociAety Asif Haroon Memon to six years in prison and a fine of Rs17.5 million in a government land scam case.

Mr Memon was on pre-arrest bail and was taken into custody and sent to the Nara prison after announcement of the judgement.

He was represented by advocate Riazat Sahar.

Ghous Bux Kaheri was the National Accountability Bureau's prosecutor.

The reference against the former administrator was filed in 2015 by NAB mentioning that he fraudulently approved a layout plan of phase-1 and 2 of the society in Kohsar, deh Ganjo Takkar, Latifabad, in March 2011.

It was claimed in the reference that a large number of plots were shown illegally and sold in the open market at exorbitant rates.

The reference said that an inquiry was authorised and it was later converted into an investigation by the director general of NAB on March 30, 2015.

It said that during the course of investigation it was revealed that the accused as administrator of the HDA Employees CoopAeraAtive Housing Society (HDAECHS) was found involAved in corruption and corrupt practices by misuse of authority.

He committed serious violations of the Cooperative Societies Act 1925, Sindh Cooperative Housing Authority Ordinance 1982 and by-laws of the society by fraudulently revising layout plan of HDA Employees Society. He made illegal allotment and subsequently leased out plots to non-members of the society.

The investigation reveaAled that the land on which alleged plots were carved out did not fall in the area of HDAECHS and the said land belonged to the HDA.

The accused illegally allotted 61 plots and subsequently leased out the plots through fake revised layout plan of the...