PESHAWAR: A special anti-corruption court on Friday rejected the prearrest bail petitions of two former National Database and Registration Authority of ficials in a case about their alleged facilitation of the issuance of Pakistani computerised national identity card to the National Geographic famed `Afghan girl`, Sharbat Gula.

When judge Farah Jamshed Khan pronounced the order, both the petitioners, including Mohsin Ehsan and Palwasha Afridi, were not present in the courtroom.

The court directed the Federal Investigation Agency to arrest both and produce before it.

One of the petitioners, Mohsin Ehsan, currently serving in the Federal Board of Revenue Peshawar of fices, had produced a medical certificate claiming that his leg was fractured and therefore, he was admitted to hospital, whereas the other had claimed that her infant daughter was unwell and therefore, she couldn`t appear before the court.

An official said petitioner Mohisn Ehsan, who was earlier serving as the assistant director in the Nadra, was later on taken into custody by the FIA from a local hospital.

On Oct 20, the FIA had registered a case against three former Nadra employees for allegedly issuing CNICs to Ms Gula and two other Afghans shown as her sons.

The FIR says after completion of inquiry number 4/2015 and checking of Nadra records it has been established that three employees of Nadra Peshawar of fice identified as Palwasha Afridi, Mohsin Ehsan and Emad fraudulently issued Pakistani identity cards to Afghan nationals Sharbat Gula, Wali Khan and Rauf Khan.

They were charged under sections 409, 419, 420, 468, 471 and 109 of Pakistan Panel Code, Section 5(2) of Prevention of Corruption Act, and Section 30 of Nadra Ordinance.-Bureau Report