LAHORE – A man from Sheikhupura district of Punjab, who is being asked to pay bribe to sell his land, has appealed to the provincial high-ups to take action against the officers responsible.
Munawar Hussain, a resident of Dhana Juwalapur, says he needed relevant records for his land (he intended to sell) from the departments concerned, from which he submitted applications to land revenue department to complete all the legal procedures.
But, Abbas Ali, an official at the department, forced him to pay bribe in order to get the land records.
Following this illegal demand, Munawar said he went to the office of the Assistant Commissioner of Sharaqpur tehsil of Sheikhupura to lodge a complaint against the corrupt official only to be mistreated by the AC’s staff, who called him by names and threw him out of the office.
The man has now appealed to the relevant authorities to take action against the officers as well as taking notice of the rising trend of bribery in the district.
