RAWALPINDI, Nov 9: The City police on Sunday booked president People’s Students Federation (PSF) Punjab chapter Khalid Nawaz Boby and nine other people on the charge of beating a senior official of the education department.

Imran Shah, a college student and a PSF activist nominated in the FIR, has been arrested while search for the other accused is under way, said the police.

Director Colleges Ulfat Mehmood Janjua lodged a complaint with the police stating that Khalid Nawaz Boby had been asking him to recruit two of his men as assistant professors in the education department for the last few days. He was told that the two vacant seats had already been filled on merit and there was no more vacancy, Mr Janjua said.

He said on Saturday night, Boobi along with ten other young men came to his office and started arguing with him. He said the intruders attacked him, tore his shirt and then dragged him out of the office. On hearing his shouts, some passersby gathered on the scene and rescued him. Later, the attackers disappeared from the scene.

ARRESTED: Police have arrested two persons and are hunting for three others on the charge of secretly setting up a worship place and propagating the Ahmedi religion in the RA Bazaar area on Sunday.

A former station house officer, Sohail Akhtar Usmani, reported to the police that Abdul Hameed Ghani had set up a worship place in Mirza Street, where 100 to 150 people including women used to come for prayers.

“Earlier, the local residents were unaware of the activity but later they came to know that the Ahmedi religion was being propagated in the worship place,” he added.