BADIN - The district and sessions court here on Tuesday handed down five-year imprisonment to the ex-employees of a local NGO, National Rural Support Programme (NRSP). 

According to the reports, the second additional district and session judge sentenced two ex-employees of NRSP, Shakoor Bhoot and Allah Bachayo Panwhar, to five years in prison as they were found guilty of committing financial embezzlement in the funds given for NGO’s Tando Bago sub-office. 

Both the convicts had appealed to the honourable court for the cancellation of previous judgment, but the court rejected their appeal and ordered police to send them to the Central Jail in Hyderabad. 

It is pertinent to mention here that both ex-employees of NRSP, Badin chapter, had been held in the financial embezzlement case of Rs17.9 million.