DADU, June 7: The villagers and political activists held a demonstration in Johi on Monday to protest against the Wahi Pandhi police for registering a false case against a boy.

They were led by Nazim, Tando Raheem union council, Aslam Khan Jangwani, and People's Party Parliamentarians' Johi taluka president Basheer Ahmed Thaheem. Speaking to the demonstrators, Mr Jangwani alleged that the boy, Jaro Khan, had been implicated in a false case after he refused to sell his 100 acres of land to his uncle.

He said that the DPO had constituted a team to investigate into the matter but the investigation was being delayed. He said that the Wahi Pandhi SHO was issuing threats to the family of Jaro Khan to force it to withdraw a complaint against him. He appealed to the DPO for taking stern action against the SHO.

KILLED: A villager was shot dead here and another strangulated over an old enmity in a village of Khairpur Nathan Shah taluka on Monday. Mazhar Ali, resident of Fateh Khan Zounr village, was shot dead allegedly by Liaquat and Zahid Zounr here.

Police, on the complaint of Ali Akbar Zounr, the brother of the deceased, have registered an FIR against the accused. In the second incident, Ranjho Qambrani, 60, was strangulated allegedly by Sikandar Chandio and Khan Mallah in Fatehpur village. The Khairpur Nathan Shah police have registered a case.

LOOTED: Six unknown armed men barged into the house of a Navy official, Mohammad Yousuf Shinwari, in Gharibabad Colony, Kotri, on Monday. The armed men held all the family members hostage at gunpoint, looted Rs88,000 cash, 14 tola gold and other valuables and fled.

PRISONERS SHIFTED: The district jail administration here on Monday shifted 100 prisoners to the Central Jail Hyderabad after number of the prisoners rose to 350 in the Dadu jail.

ELECTRICITY: Due to a technical fault in 11KW wire in feeder-II of the city, power supply remained suspended for two hours here on Monday.

PPP-SB: Pakistan People's Party (Shaheed Bhutto) Sindh president, Meenhan Khan Rind has said that the Sindh government has failed to control law and order in Karachi. He was talking at annual party meeting of the workers here the other day. He alleged that police were implicating workers of his partyto change their loyalties.

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