TOBA TEK SINGH: A police van was damaged as several people pelted the police and Faisalabad Development Authority (FDA) officials with stones in the Sheikhanwala locality on College Road in Faisalabad on Tuesday.

According to the FIR registered by Samanabad police, FDA Deputy Director Imtiaz Ali Goraya said a team of the authority had gone to the locality to vacate an illegally occupied residential plot by one Rizwan Ahmad Sial. When the officials asked him to vacate the plot, he and his 21 accomplices attacked the FDA team and tortured enforcement inspector Muhammad Qaiser and other officials. The FDA officials called the police.

It added that the suspects also attacked the policemen and damaged the police van by pelting it with stones.

Police arrested some of the attackers who could not be identified.

Meanwhile, the accused family alleged that their men and women were tortured in an attempt to get vacate their residential property.

FDA team had gone to retrieve residential plot

CONVICTED: Gojra Additional District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Javed Akram Beetu handed down life imprisonment and a fine of Rs500,000 to a convict in a murder case.

According to the prosecution, convict Muhammad Akram of Chak 432-JB (Saddar police area) had tortured Faiz Ahmad of his village to death after an argument over a minor dispute a year ago.

NOTICE: Faisalabad Commissioner Silwat Saeed has taken notice of the complaint that differently-abled children had been forced to attend the classes in upper-storey classrooms at the Government Special Education School Pirmahal.

A press release said the commissioner directed Toba Tek Singh deputy commissioner to immediately arrange the classes of the physically-challenged children in classrooms located on the ground floor.

She also ordered the DCs of all four districts of the division and district education authority CEOs to post the appointment of teachers on vacant posts and arrange buses for transportation of students of special education in their districts.

Published in Dawn, November 29th, 2023