KARACHI: A corruption reference against former inspector general of Sindh police Ghulam Haider Jamali and others has not been admitted yet for want of an administrative judge, it emerged on Wednesday. The National Accountability Bureau had filed a corruption reference before an accountability court a few days ago against the former provincial police officer and others. However, the tenure of the last administrative judge of accountability courts, Saad Qureshi, had ended on March 13 and since then the court has been lying vacant.

The court of ficials said that the reference had not been admitted as nobody had been notified as the administrative judge.

The former IGP and then finance AIG Fida Hussain Shah and six other police officials have been accused of allegedly making illegal appointments by misusing their authority in the Sindh Reserve Police (SRP), Hyderabad, causing a loss of over Rs50 million to the national exchequer.

Initially, the Supreme Court had appointed three-member fact-finding committees to identify illegalities in recruitments and later, in the light of the committees` recommendations, the apex court had referred the matter to NAB to investigate it.

The reference said that former IG Jamali, AIG Shah, then training DIG Sahab Mazhar Bhalli, then Sindh Reserve Police ADIG Aitezaz Ahmed Goraya, then West SSP retired Captain Ghulam Azfar Mahesar, then Matiari district SP Amjad Ahmed Shaikh, Kashmore district SP Umar Tufail and then T harparl(ar district SP Khalid Mustafa Korai were allegedly involved in illegal recruitments in the SR P, Hyderabad.

Confessional statement A judicial magistrate recorded on Wednesday a confessional statement of a suspect in a case pertaining to a bomb attack at a police officer`s home.

The Counter-Terrorism Department claimed to have arrested Qari Mohammad Jawaid, Zafar Ali, alias Saeen, Syed Hassan Ali and Mohammad Wazir in Mehran Town on March 6 after a shoot-out and seized a huge cache of arms and explosives.

The CTD alleged that they were associated with the proscribed Lashkar-i-Jhangvi (Naeem Bukhari group) and involved in terrorism-related cases.

The investigating officer produced Qari Jawaid before a judicial magistrate (east) to record his confession under Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code. After completing the legal formalities, the magistrate recorded his confessional statement.