TOBA TEK SINGH: Jhang-Toba Road was blocked on Friday night by shopkeepers of Adda Bagh for two hours over an anti-encroachment operation conducted by Jhang’s municipal staff.

During the demolition of the sheds of the shops, a crane driver hit the blade on a shed; as a result, shop owner Muhammad Shahzad who was sitting on the shed in protest, not only fell down and was injured but also received an electric shock from live electricity wires, which provoked the shopkeepers. They pelted the crane and the official van with stones.

After talks with Satellite Town police, the protesters ended their protest and restored traffic.

Sources said that the Punjab governor was scheduled to visit a village near Adda Bagh in a couple of days, prompting the anti-encroachment operation.

CASE: Tirkhani police sub-inspector Naseer Ahmad Amer was booked for misusing his authority while being suspended.

The police spokesperson said on Saturday that the SI had arrested Riaz Masih over a personal grudge in a fake case. After receiving the complaint, CPO Kamran Adil ordered an investigation into case, which confirmed in his report that the complaint against him was valid.

HONOUR KILLING: A man allegedly killed his married daughter for ‘honour’ in Chah Bahadur Wala, a locality of Roddu Sultan area of Athara Hazari tehsil of Jhang, on Saturday.

Police said Farzana, 22, had eloped a few weeks ago from her husband Sabtain’s house. Later, she returned and had been staying at her aunt’s (her father’s sister) house for the last few days, wishing to get a divorce from her husband to marry the man with whom she had an affair.

Her father Sultan went there, showed sympathy, and brought her home, where he killed her with a chopper and fled.

Police were conducting raids to arrest the suspect.

DEATH SENTENCE: Additional District and Sessions Judge of Faisalabad Munir Hussain Gill handed down a death sentence and a fine of Rs500,000 to a double murder convict on Saturday.

The prosecution stated that Junaid Saeed had shot dead Haider Abbas and Muhammad Imran two years ago over a farmland ownership dispute in Chak Jhumra.

ENCOUNTER: A dacoit from Okara was killed in Toba Tek Singh on Friday night in an encounter with the police.

A police official said that on the link road of Chak 328-JB, policemen in a City police van stopped two suspects riding a motorcycle, but they opened fire on the policemen, who retaliated.

When the firing stopped, the police found one of them dead; he had died from multiple bullets fired by his own accomplice. He was identified as Akhtar Ali of Okara.

The official claimed he had been involved in dozens of robberies across Sahiwal, Okara, Pakpatan, Lahore, Faisalabad, and Toba Tek Singh.

Police were conducting raids to arrest his accomplice, who managed to flee.

Published in Dawn, October 27th, 2024