LARKANA, Jan 12 The Larkana circuit bench of the Sindh High Court on Monday restrained the Larkana district nazim, DCO, senior most presiding officer and two members of district council from any proceedings on the basis of a recall motion against district naib nazim.

Justice Nadeem Azhar Siddiqui hearing the petitioner of naib nazim Syed Ali Raza Shah issued notices to additional advocate-general and local government of Sindh and other respondents for Jan 21.

Mr Shah said in his petition that two members of District Council, Larkana Ali Hassan Sario and Basheer Hussain Shiakh had moved a joint motion for his removal from the office of district naib nazim with malafide intentions as he was on leave from Dec 29, 2008 to Jan 23, 2009.

Lawyers of petitioner Asif Abdul Razzak Soomro and Haibullah Ghauri said that allegations levelled against the petitioner were indefinite and vague in nature as the motion was the result of political animosity to harass him. The joint notice moved against district naib nazim (the petitioner) was in contravention of the provisions of section 47(1) of Sindh Local Government Ordinance 2001, he said.

The petitioner said that he had nothing to do with entrusting the district coordination officer for re-appropriation of the budget. The petitioner said that respondents wanted to create political imbalance and mismanagement in District Council Larkana.

The petitioner apprehended malpractice and malfunctioning at the hands of DCO, district nazim and senior most presiding officer of district council therefore they were together, his lawyers said. The petitioner said that the action of respondents was illegal and requested the court to declare the notice/motion moved on Jan 10 by two district council members as null and void.

He also requested the court to restrain respondents from proceedings and deliberations on the motion/notice in the session of the district council summoned on Jan 14 or thereafter.

The petition will come up for next hearing on Jan 21.

DROWN Two minor brothers were drowned in a pond in Mubarak Kalhoro village near Behram.

Eight-year-old Amir Kalhoro and his five-year-old brother Zakria Kalhoro went missing on Sunday morning while efforts to trace them failed. Villagers on Monday spotted their bodies floating in the pond. The bodies after being recovered were buried.

ARREST Market police on Monday arrested a dismissed policeman while attempting to commit suicide outside the local press club.

Ghulam Ali Shaikh was dismissed in 2002 by the then DPO Sardar Abdul Majeed Dasti and since then he was approaching police high ups for reinstatement but in vain.

He inflicted injuries on his body with sharp blades and started bleeding. Police took him away but again he returned and started injuring himself with the blades.

Police whisked him away to the police station.