LARKANA, Jan 8: A procession was taken out in Shahdadkot town on Thursday against the deteriorating law and order situation in the district and police failure to improve it.

People's Party Parliamentarian MNAs Ramesh Lal, Khalid Iqbal Memon, Anwar Bhutto and Shahid Bhutto led the procession that emerged from Kotoo-Motoo Chowk. The participants, carrying flags and banners, marched on the main roads of the town and assembled at Sujawal Chowk.

Speaking on the occasion, the MNAs said despite a rise in the incidents of kidnappings, no concrete efforts had been taken by the administration to curb the crime.

They said 19 kidnap victims were in the clutches of bandits and added that honest police officials had never been allowed to work freely. They said Ratodero, Shahdadkot and Naudero, the constituency of the party leader Benazir Bhutto, had become the target of the criminal activities.

They said black sheep in the police had been mixed up with the criminals. They announced if kidnap victims were not returned within a weeks, they would set out for long march to Karachi.

TRANSFERRED: Meanwhile, DIG Mohammed Ramzan Channa on Thursday constituted different teams of the police officials to ensure safe recovery of the kidnapped victims.

He replaced DSP, Ratodero, Sahib Shah, with Abdul Jabbar Bijarani. The DIG apprised the police officials that from now onward the district police officers (operation) would head the investigation wing of police in Sukkur range, that had earlier been headed by a DPO (investigation).

JIRGA: A 15-year-old dispute between the Chutto and Gaincho clans was resolved on Thursday by a tribal Jirga.

Nawab Shabir Ahmed Chandio and Sardar Mohammed Saleh Bhutani presided over the Jirga proceedings. The dispute, that had claimed nine lives, had started over a piece of land situated near Kutey-ji-Kabar in Kambar taluka.

Announcing the verdict, Sardar Bhutani said the Ganichos would pay Rs800,000 fine to the Chuttos and there would be no ban on the movement of both clans.Both the groups will remain settled in the area whose boundaries were defined by Nawab Gaibi Khan Chandio and they will be free to cultivate lands in their respective areas.