THATTA: Detainee freed

Published January 25, 2003

THATTA, Jan 24: An employee of the forestry department, Abdul Majeed Soomro, has been freed from illegal detention after the Keenjhar police station was raided on Thursday night by the second civil judge, Thatta, Amir Awan.

The judge has also seized the record of the police station.

The raid as conducted after the former general secretary of the SRTC and the brother of the victim, Ali Hassan Soomro, moved an application before the sessions judge, Thatta, Rashid Mirza.

PROTEST: The disciples of Dargah Sakhi Badshah on Friday staged a bare-footed march on the seven-kilometre-long Sujawal- Jati road to protest against land-grabbers.

Later, talking to newsmen, the representatives of protesters also criticized the digging of a watercourse through the land of the shrine.

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