Khairpur receives rain

Published June 4, 2006

KHAIRPUR, June 3: Parts of the Khairpur district received rain with a dust storm on Friday. The first shower of summer in Saghiyoon, Kumb, Kotdiji, Talpur Wada, Loung Faqeer, Shadi Shaheed and taluka Nara brought a pleasant change in the weather.

BOY SODOMISED: The Thari Mirwah police have registered a case against three persons for criminally assaulting a class-X student, Ghulam Mujtaba Jogi.

The student lodging a case on Friday accused that Zahoor Ahmed, Samoo and Abdul Khaliq criminally assaulted him on May 25, 2006, in the otaq of Samoo in village Nandi Thari of district Khairpur.

He had gone to attend a marriage ceremony in the village where he stayed in the Otaq.

According to the boy, the accused had offered him tea mixed with tranquillisers and when he fell unconscious, they sodomized him.

CASE: The Ranipur police on Friday night lodged a case against 44 farmers for blocking the National Highway near Ranipur in the evening of the same day.

An ASI, the complainant of the case, said farmers had staged a demonstration and blocked the highway.

The farmers said they had protested against the theft of material of private tube-wells and the refusal of police to register an FIR against the thieves.

RELEASED: The kidnapped police constables Mushtaq Gad and Naseem Panhwar were released on Saturday.

The kidnapers are said to be members of Nang Narejo gang.

DPO of Khairpur Javed Jiskani and TPO of Ripri Ghulam Ali Brohi told journalists that the two police constables were from katcha area in the jurisdiction of the Guloo Siyal police station on May 2. He claimed that they had been released due to police pressure.

The two released policemen, who were present on the occasion, told the reporters that the kidnappers had tortured them and kept them in chains.

Mushtaq Gad was a security guard of the vice-chancellor of the Shah Abdul Latif University Khairpur and Naseem Panhwar was posted at the Guloo Siyal police station.

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