PESHAWAR: An anti-corruption judge on Tuesday sentenced a former union council naib nazim and a councillor to 12 years imprisonment each for attesting and forging documents of a precious government land.

The judge also slapped them with a fine of Rs200,000 each.

Fazal Subhan Khan, the anti-corruption judge, acquitted Jan Alam, former nazim of Sheikh Junaidabad union council, as prosecution could not prove its case against him.

The court also issued arrest warrants of an absconding accused, Roohullah Khan, a resident of Mashogagar area in Peshawar.

The said suspect has already been declared absconder by an anti-terrorism court in Islamabad after he had escaped from police custody in July 2012.

The court ruled that the evidence on record connected Jawed Bangash, former naib nazim of Sikander Town union council, and Naseer Khan, former councillor, with the commission of the offence.

The court sentenced them to three years rigorous imprisonment on four counts each.

The sentences will run concurrently.

The prosecution alleged the suspects had prepared forged documents and also attested the same through which a precious government plot, measuring 18 kanals, which was part of a public park, was transferred in the name of Roohullah in Oct 2010.