June 3, 2002	Monday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 21,1423

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TOBA TEK SINGH, June 2: The Punjab government’s testing laboratory has declared as injurious to health the drinking water samples of all three water supply schemes of the district headquarters.

An official said on Sunday that the district health officer had sent water samples to Lahore for testing which was declared unfit for drinking.

He said the DHO had apprised the tehsil Nazim of the laboratory test report, but so far the tehsil council had done nothing in this regard.

Dozens of citizens have been suffering from hepatitis B, C and jaundice for the last several months due to the contaminated water.

SNATCHED: Four robbers on Sunday snatched a tractor-trolley from its driver on the Toba-Faisalabad Road, some 20 kilometres from here.

Dildar Hussain was coming back to Gojra after unloading ice at Toba Tek Singh. Near Noorpur railway station, armed robbers riding in a car intercepted him. They seriously wounded him for putting up resistance. Later, they drove away with the tractor (TSB-1285) after leaving behind the trolley near Chak 301-GB. The robbers afterwards tied the injured driver with a rope, threw him on the Gojra-Mureedwala Road and escaped.

ACTION DEMANDED: A citizen has asked police authorities to take action against a former City police SI on the charge of misappropriation of his amount.

Dr Sardar Chaudhry said he had been arrested in 1998 in a case and during his search SI Muhammad Ilyas had taken into custody Rs14,650 in cash. Now on the orders of the district magistrate he contacted the district accounts officer, but he told him the SI had not deposited the money in the exchequer.

SURVEY: The government is going to start a survey of narcotic addicts and patients through Nazimeen, Naib Nazimeen and councillors of union councils of all districts.

This was disclosed by the Anti-Narcotics divisional coordinator in a seminar here on Sunday.

According to a report, he said at present there were two million heroin addicts and four million heroin patients in the country.

In Faisalabad division, he said seven anti-narcotics centres had been set up while an anti-narcotics police station had been established at the divisional headquarters.