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Canal assistant

held for

water theft

RECORDER REPORT

HYDERABAD: The circle officer, Anti-Corruption, Hyderabad Mohammad Ismail Abbasi has arrested the Canal Assistant of Masu sub-division of Sukkur Barrage, Yaqoob Memon for his involvement in the theft of irrigation water.

A government hand out said that it was brought to the notice of the high-ups that engineers. Kewal Ram and Zaheer Haider Shah illegally allowed extra-water for irrigation to Zamindars of Hala Division, Masu sub-division.

The matter was taken up by the army and an inquiry was ordered. During the course of inquiry, the allegations were proved and so far the canal assistant has been arrested.

It could not be known so to what action has been taken against the two engineers.