|
|
| January 25, 2002 | Friday | Ziqa’ad 10, 1422 |
Dispute over park land aggravates
TOBA TEK SINGH, Jan 24: The ownership dispute of the Teku Park aggravated with the appearance of the Faisalabad Railway police to occupy the park.
The team arrested four employees of the hotel sealed by the railway police a couple of days back when a civil judge dismissed the application of the Teku Cultural Organization (TCO) for the grant of the temporary injunction of the park.
Faisalabad police station SHO told this correspondent that a case had been registered against the arrested Muhammad Idrees, Tahir Iqbal, Muhammad Ramzan and Falaksher and the office-bearers of the TCO, including Chaudhry Muhammad Ashraf, Riaz Ahmad Awan, former Anjuman-i-Tajran President Chaudhry Abdul Ahmad, former municipal councillor Mian Abdul Sattar Tari, Muhammad Pervez, Muhammad Iqbal, Muhammad Haris, Abdul Rashid Gujjar and District Bar Association executive committee member Chaudhry Iftikhar Ahmad Sindhu, under sections 447, 186 PPC and 122 (sub section 3) of the railway act on the charge of unlawfully occupying railway land.
He claimed the arrested were detained in the Gojra railway police post lock-up and later produced before an area magistrate who issued their judicial remand. Thereafter, they were shifted to the Jhang District Jail, he added.
Meanwhile, the railway police and staff removed furniture, saleable products and boats in the park to the station’s waiting rooms and at the platform.
The TCO office-bearers claimed the railway authorities had violated the court orders by taking the park into possession and shifting the goods. A spokesman showed this correspondent the ordered of the Civil Judge, Mirza Suleman Baig, who had given a period of three days for handing over the charge of the park to the Pakistan Railways. The order was issued on Jan 21.
The spokesman also showed a stay order issued by Additional District and Sessions Judge Malik Falaksher Farooqa on Jan 23 in which the court had directed that the present situation of the property be retained as it is till Feb 9.
The spokesman claimed the stay order was issued by the court within said three days period which were given by the civil judge, adding the railway authorities had no right to arrest the people, registering cases and removing goods.
He said the TCO also filed a new application on Thursday in the court of additional sessions judge to apprise the court about the violation of the stay order. The court deputed a senior lawyer as commission on behalf of court, he added.
Advocate Mian Shoaib Muhammad visited the railway station and recorded the statements of the police officials and railway staff who were busy taking goods away from the park.
ENGLISH COMPULSORY: English will be taught as a compulsory subject to class one students in all the government primary schools in the province from the next academic session.
This was disclosed by Punjab education Director Public Instruction (schools) Rao Shamim Ahmad Khan in a meeting of the headmasters of the schools in the district, here on Wednesday.
Mr Khan said around 57,000 teachers would be inducted in schools after lifting of ban on the fresh recruitments and disposing of pending promotion cases.
He said promotion orders of more than 9,000 teachers had already been issued during the last eight months, adding if any teacher had objection to the seniority lists of the department he could apply through the office of EDO of the concerned district to provincial secretary education.
He said the last date for filing such applications had been extended from Jan 20 to 31 while the remaining posts of grade 17 teachers would be filled through district selection by the Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC).
All the secondary schools’ teachers would be recruited under new ratio of 50 per cent of science and arts, he said. He revealed the provincial government would soon set up 32 trade and technical schools in various districts of the province with an expenditure of Rs640 million, adding the courses to be taught there would be decided by the respective district governments.
As many as 5,216 teachers would be trained in science during summer vacation to fill the posts with competent people, Mr Khan concluded.
|
|
