October 25, 2001	Thursday	Shaba'an 7, 1422

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GUJRAT, Oct 24: At least nine local hotels have been evading taxes on various counts for the last 10 years, it is learnt.

Sources in local excise and taxation office said on Wednesday that taxes like hotel bed tax, professional tax and education cess tax were evaded with impunity.

Tax-evading hotels are: Yousuf, Al-Mehran and New Melody International in Gujrat, Al-Farooq, Akhtar, Imran in Lalamusa, Shahzad, Gulf and Adil in Kharian.

They said owners had been served with notices by excise and taxation authorities, and after expiry of the deadline, stern action would be taken against them.

District excise inspector Amir Shahzad Gondal said the department was expected to recover millions of rupees in outstanding amount from these hotels.

KILLS SISTER, LOVER: A man along with his companion on Tuesday night clubbed to death his sister and her alleged lover in Khojianwali, Kunjah.

Victims ‘F’ and her nephew Fiaz were asleep when Razzaq and his friend Iqbal attacked them with clubs, killing them instantly. Accused Iqbal was said to be the brother of the slain, Fiaz.

Kunjah police have registered a case.

TWO MURDERED: Two people were murdered while as many injured in different incidents in and around the city during the last 24 hours.

Fateh Khan and his accomplices shot dead Qadir Dad and injured his brother Fazal and his son Aslam over an old enmity in Chokerry Bheelowal, Dinga. The injured were admitted to a nearby hospital.

In Shah Jehanian, Lalamusa, a youth, Irfan, was killed with the bullet shot of his father Nazir’s rifle in an attempt to save his mother, Khurshid Begum.