BAHAWALPUR, Dec 5: District and Sessions Judge Badaruzzaman Chatha ordered release of 57 prisoners, involved in petty crimes, from Bahawalpur’s New Central Jail on Wednesday.

Formalities for the release of 24 inmates were being completed, it was learnt.

Sources said that jail authorities were preparing lists of prisoners, over 60-year-old and involved in petty crimes, for their release by the end of Ramazan.

ROAD ACCIDENT: Nine people were injured in a head-on collision between two buses of a transport company near Musafir Khana, about 15 kilometres from here, on Wednesday morning.

The injured were taken to the Bahawal Victoria Hospital. Two of them were discharged after first aid while the condition of one of the bus driver, Arif, was stated to be serious.

The injured were Abdul Aziz, Faqir Baksh, Allah Diwa, Muhammad Amin, Muhammad Baksh and Khawar Abbas.

LABOUR BODY: A three-member advisory monitoring labour committee has been constituted to promote worker-owner relations and solve the problems of working class in the district.

District labour officer Nusrat Kamal will be the convener of the committee. Bahawalpur Chamber of Commerce and Industry senior vice-president Malik Nazim Hussain Awan, Bahawalpur Federation of Trade Unions president Nazir Siddiqui and Yazman Tehsil Council’s labour councillor Hamid Bashir will be the members.

The committee has been constituted on the directive of Punjab Labour Department secretary.

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