LARKANA, March 13: At least 28 community-supported schools will be established in Larkana District, it was decided in a meeting presided over by the district coordination officer (DCO) on Wednesday.

Under the newly-adopted programme, the community will provide accommodations while the government will extend academic support with the appointment of teachers paying them a lump sum remuneration of Rs2,500 per month.

The meeting discussed education plans being executed under the Annual Development Programme and the third phase of the Khushal Pakistan Programme and approved an amount of Rs0.280 million for it.

It reviewed various projects and approved Rs2.100 million for setting up five teachers’ training centres connected with monitoring schools.

The teachers will be imparted training in the subjects of science and mathematics and the centres will be made functional during the current financial year.

The meeting approved an amount of Rs36.521 million for construction work in various schools of the district.

MAN KILLED: A man, Mir Hassan, was killed in the Gokalpur village in the limits of the Mahota police station on late Tuesday night.

Mr Mir was a resident of Khairpur Mir and had gone to the Gokalpur village to attend a marriage ceremony where he was killed.

Two suspended: The district investigation police officer (DIPO), in the wake of the raid conducted by a team of the Sindh High Court at the Kambar police station from where three illegally detained persons were recovered on Sunday, suspended the investigation inspector, Abdul Fatah Bhutto, on Tuesday.

Talking to this correspondent, DIPO Abdul Ahad Sangri said inquiry had been initiated against the suspended police inspector as to why he had detained the three men without any legal authority. He further said that the sub-inspector, Investigation, Karim Bakhsh Bhayo, had also been suspended and demoted on the charges of corruption.

Meanwhile, the Sindh High Court, circuit bench, Larkana, adjourning the hearing regarding the raid on the Kambar police station till March 14 when the divisional bench would take up the case, had referred two detainees — Riaz Hussain Kalhoro and Noor Hussain Gopang — for medical check up to the medical superintendent of the Chandka Medical College Teaching Hospital.

They alleged that police during detention tortured them and the signs of torture were visible on their body.

Mr Justice M. Afzal Soomro, however, ordered that all five detainees including Ashique Ali Khaskheli, Barkat Ali Khaskheli, and M. Soomar Daudani be released.

The investigation officer requested the court for granting him time to file his comments but his request was turned down with the orders to appear on March 14 along with all the detainees and the documents to justify their arrest.

MAN KILLS WIFE: A man, Abdul Majeed Brohi, killed his wife, Noor Bibi (25), and a man, Rajo Khan Jatoi, on the pretext of Karo-kari in the Raza Brohi village on Tuesday, said the police.

He later surrendered himself to the Dari police along with the pistol used in the crime.

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