A junior clerk at the Jhang Deputy Commissioner’s Office has been arrested by the Anti-Corruption Establishment after being caught taking a bribe of Rs10,000, in a raid carried out on a complaint from a local resident.
The arrest, reported by The Express Tribune on 5 November 2026, followed a complaint by Sana Abbas, a resident of Sugar Mill Colony in Jhang. She told the anti-corruption authorities that the clerk had demanded the money to process the sale and registration of her 18-marla property — routine paperwork that a citizen should be able to get done without paying anything extra.
Acting on her complaint, the Anti-Corruption Establishment set up a raid. The team worked on the directions of Khalid Masood Farooka, the Faisalabad Regional Director of the Anti-Corruption Establishment, and was led by Circle Officer Akhtar Saeed. Magistrate Shahroz Shaheen Ranjha accompanied the team. During the raid, the officers caught the clerk in the act of receiving the money.
The report does not name the clerk, and it does not say what charge has been formally registered or whether the clerk has been remanded. Those details have not been published, and this article does not guess them. What is confirmed is the arrest itself, the amount involved, the complainant’s account of what the money was demanded for, and the officers who led the raid.
The case is a small one in money terms — Rs10,000 — but it matters for a simple reason. The Deputy Commissioner’s Office is the place where ordinary people in Jhang go for the paperwork that underpins their lives: land records, property transfers, domicile certificates, and the attestations that every other government process depends on. When a clerk in that office demands payment to move a file, the cost falls on people who can least afford it, and the delay falls on people who have no other route to get their work done.
Property registration is a common pressure point. Buying or selling a house or a plot involves several steps, each requiring a signature or a stamp, and a complainant who does not know the exact procedure is an easy target for a demand. Sana Abbas’s complaint suggests she was asked to pay to have the sale and registration of her property processed — the kind of demand that only works because the citizen fears the file will otherwise sit untouched.
The Anti-Corruption Establishment’s method here — a complaint followed by a supervised raid with a magistrate present — is the standard way these cases are built. A magistrate’s presence gives the raid legal weight, because the arrest is made while the money is changing hands rather than on the basis of an accusation alone. That is why the raid team included Magistrate Ranjha alongside the anti-corruption officers.
For Jhang’s residents, the practical lesson is the one the authorities repeat after every such arrest: do not pay for a service the government provides free, and report a demand rather than meeting it. The Anti-Corruption Establishment’s regional office in Faisalabad handles complaints from Jhang, and a written complaint is what turns a demand into a case — as it did here.
Whether this arrest leads to a conviction will depend on the case the prosecution builds and the evidence presented in court. The clerk has been arrested on an allegation, and the allegation has not yet been tested before a judge. What the arrest does show is that a complaint from a single resident, pursued through the proper channel, can reach the desk of a clerk who thought a small demand would go unchallenged.
The district administration has not yet issued a public statement on the arrest, and no statement from the Deputy Commissioner’s Office has been reported. If one is issued, or if the case moves to court, the details will be worth reporting as they are confirmed.
Source: The Express Tribune, “DC office clerk held for bribery”, published 5 November 2026.
