TOBA TEK SINGH, April 21: Arrouti police on Sunday registered a case against three dozen villagers for staging a rally against them.

No arrest however has so far been made.

Most of the Arrouti shops remained closed in protest against the police torture on shopkeepers and headmaster, teachers, and students of the Government High School, Mouza Nawab Bhooti.

A source said that names of 17 people had been mentioned in the police FIR while 19 others were unknown.

The dispute between students and wagon crew had led to the torture of students, teachers and area shopkeepers by police.

An ASI and a constable also sustained injuries when protesters threw stones on police after the baton charge and use of teargas by the police.

BODY RECOVERED: The body of a woman, who disappeared mysteriously on April 14, was recovered from a 15 feet deep drain at Rajana.

Nasim Bibi had been missing ever since she was summoned by the family of Muhammad Bashir Jat of the same locality. Her husband and family repeatedly contacted the family of Bashir, but they always replied that she had returned after a few minutes. The family searched her everywhere, but to no avail.

The post-mortem report revealed that she was strangled.

A source said that a girl of the Bashir family had relations with a boy who rang her up daily from the telephone number of the deceased woman.

Rajana police have taken into custody a man and three women of the Bashir family and are investigating.

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