PESHAWAR: Newly-appointed Chief Executive of Peshawar Electric Supply Company Pervaiz Akhtar Shah has withdrawn an ‘illegally allotted’ vehicle to the chief of the company’s workers union.

An official statement issued here on Monday said the Pesco chief had withdrawn a double-cabin pick-up truck allotted to the chairman of the company’s hydro union.

“The vehicle has been attached to the Central Transport Pool at the Pesco Headquarters,” it said.

The statement said the vehicle was illegally allotted to the workers union’s chairman and that it was misused with unlimited consumption of fuel.

The workers union has been protesting the Pesco chief’s appointment since its notification declaring it politically-motivated.

The Pesco union leaders insist the appointment was made in violation of merit and that the federal government didn’t consider the three names proposed by the Pesco’s board of directors for the post.

The Pesco officials claim the union has split into two groups.

With an MS degree from Ohio University in the United States, Pervez Akhtar Shah had begun his career as a sub-divisional officer in Wapda in 1978.

Soon after assuming the office, he had ordered an inquiry against four officers allegedly involved in the illegal sale and purchase of power from a sugar mills in Dera Ismail Khan.