Result tampering issue: Anti-corruption team ends raid on Karachi Inter Board

KARACHI: The Anti-corruption Department officials, who earlier raided the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi over result tampering, on Friday ended their three-day operation in the building.

According to sources, one employ of the Inter Board office was arrested and some documents were also confiscated in the raid.

The anti-corruption team’s officials confiscated 700 examination copies from the board office.

The officials claimed that irrefutable evidence of tampering in results was found.

Provincial minister for education Jam Mehtab Hussain Dahar said that the raid was carried out on the directions of Chief Minister Sindh Murad Ali Shah, following a series of complaints.

The intermediate results would not be delayed, said the education minister.

An Anti-corruption court today ordered to send the under custody board office official, Adil Anwar, to jail on judicial remand.

The court was displeased over delay in presenting the accused before it.

The court issued a show-cause notice to investigation officer Jamil Ahmed over the matter.

“The suspect was arrested on August 9 but presented in the court on August 11,” the anti-corruption court remarked.

The sources informed that the anti-corruption team can conduct another raid in the board office in order to finalise a decision.

The move had also led to a protest by its employees on Thursday, who had stopped work and locked up offices.

"We have, so far, found 102 cases in which the results were tampered, along with evidences," Ghulam Qadir Thebo, chairman of Anti-Corruption Department had said.

The administration of the Inter Board had rejected the allegations as baseless.

The raid, however, jeopardized the future of thousands of students of the pre-medical group, whose results might possibly be delayed in the wake of investigations.

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