MIRPUR (Kashmir English): Chairman Central Board of Revenue Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Chaudhry Muhammad Raqeeb has suspended Deputy Superintendent of the State Inland Revenue Department, Nadeem Zafar.
The action was taken on the charges of allegedly resorting to beating a senior lawyer Advocate Mian Sultan Mahmood, also the legal adviser of the AJK Inland Revenue Department, according to the official sources.
The Chairman Central Board took the action on the recommendations of the IRD (South) Head, Commissioner Syed Ansar Ali, after preliminary probe into the matter.
IRD Deputy Superintendent Nadeem Zafar allegedly manhandled Mian Sultan Mehmood, a veteran jurist of AJK and senior member of Mirpur District Bar Association, during an official meeting between the two on the issue of handing over some official documents related to a department’s under trial cases in the court of law, to the legal adviser, official sources close to IRD AJK said.
Mirpur District Bar Association AJK
At the same time, Mirpur District Bar Association while condemning and strongly protesting over the incident, here Thursday demanded immediate arrest of the IRD official Nadeem Zaffar, who has also allegedly been booked by the concerned local police station on the report of the local legal community and the DBA for manhandling the senior lawyer.
The DBA has warned local authorities of taking stringent future course of action if the accused official was not arrested by noon on Friday – March 6.
