HYDERABAD, Sept 22: The Qasimabad investigation police on Tuesday submitted a charge-sheet against seven women, who had escaped from the Darul Aman on July 31, in the court of the civil judge and judicial magistrate-I, Shamsuddin Junejo.
The assistant director of the Darul Aman, Mrs Iqbal Shafi Vistro, had lodged the case against the women, Zahida Kalohi, 25, daughter of Ali Bux, Mansab Bibi, 25, daughter of Karim Bux, Basri, 25, daughter of Bux Jaskani, Hooran, daughter of Noor Mohammad Shar, Parveen, 24, daughter of Mushtaq, Shabbiran and her sister, Masooda, daughters of Ibrahim Magsi.
The women are on bail and are living in a shelter house, Panah, in Karachi since their sureties were submitted by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan's Special Task Force for Sindh.
Two of them had alleged that they had been subjected to criminal assault and they were pregnant. However, medical examinations of the women, conducted at the Hyderabad Civil Hospital, showed that they were not pregnant. A case against Darul Aman officials had also been lodged by an official of the University of Sindh.
CASE LODGED: Yet another case was lodged against Anzarul Haq, the proprietor of a firm involved in a motorbike scam, at the Cantonment police station on Monday night. Maqbool Hussain Arain lodged the case, stating that he had given Rs1,216,000 to Mr Haq for delivery of 32 motorbikes, each having Rs32,000 price.
He said the accused had promised to deliver the motorbikes within 15 days but later he closed his showroom without delivering the bikes or returning him the money. Meanwhile, Mr Haq and the co-accused, Mohammad Akbar Khan, were remanded in judicial custody for five days by the civil judicial and judicial magistrate-IV on Monday.
They were sent to the central prison in a case lodged at the City police station for a fraud of Rs10 million on the complaint of one Mohammad Naeem. The Phulleli police are investigating the case.
HOUSING SCHEMES: Hyderabad District Council convener Nawab Rashid Ali Khan has proposed the appointment of a five-member committee to solve the issue of housing schemes of the Hyderabad Development Authority.
Giving his observation while presiding over the council session on Tuesday, he said the committee should see whether new housing schemes of the HDA were feasible and ensure that schemes for low- income people were introduced.
He said the committee should present its report before the council which would then submit recommendations to the government.
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