Arrested educationists sent to prison on judicial remand

PESHAWAR: An accountability court on Wednesday sent one serving and a former vice-chancellor as well as other officials, who were arrested by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for misuse of authority, to Central Prison Peshawar on 14 days judicial remand.
The accountability court headed by a judge Muhammad Ibrahim Khan also accepted the application for granting B-class to the educationists in the prison.
The NAB officials produced the arrested educationists including Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, Vice Chancellor Dr Ihsan Ali, former vice-chancellor of Hazara University Dr Syed Sakhawat Shah, Dr Muhammad Aziz Khan, who is Chairman National Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) College of Medicine Abbottabad, and Prof Humayun Zia, former chairman Higher Education Regulatory Authority (HERA), in the court.
However, the NAB prosecutor did not request for remand of the suspects and submitted before the court that investigation had been completed in the case.
Dr Ihsan Ali had served as vice-chancellor of Hazara University before becoming the vice-chancellor of Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan. Dr Aziz was the owner of NIMS in Abbottabad.
As per the NAB communiqué, the accused were involved in misuse of authority and cheating public at large by luring students to get admission in an illegal and unregistered medical institution, depriving their parents of more than Rs550 million.