February 4, 2003	Tuesday	Zul Hijjah 2,1423

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SIALKOT, Feb 3: Robbers plundered cash, gold ornaments and valuables worth Rs1.2 million in various parts of the district during the last 24 hours.

Some 12 armed men stormed into landlord Chaudhry Mohyuddin Gujjar’s house in Korpur village, Daska. They beat up the landlord’s five servants and took them at gunpoint to another landlord Chaudhry Sultan’s house from where they took away cash, jewellery and electronics worth Rs200,000.

The gang also looted cash and gold ornaments worth Rs250,000 from Chaudhry Tahir’s house in the same village.

In a separate strike, more than 10 robbers surrounded Dogranwala village in the Uggoki police station precincts for two hours and harassed the people by aerial firing Sunday night. However, some of the villagers returned firing making the armed men flee.

Dacoits injured a school watchman in Uggoki on resistance in another incident while in Gulshan Town (Hajipura), robbers plundered cash, gold ornaments and valuables worth Rs150,000 from trader Badar Munir’s house.

In Pasrur’s Muslim colony, three armed men took away cash and jewellery worth Rs150,000. Four robbers snatched Rs20,000 in cash from a villager, Yasir, in Korpur village.

As many as 15 robbers made bucks and took away cash, ornaments and other valuables worth Rs1.5 million in nine strikes in Dilhozi village in Narowal Saddar police station precincts.

The intruders held up women and children in all the houses and manhandled men. They left all the houses in disarray.

Later, hundreds of villagers demonstrated against the rising incidence of crime in the adjacent localities.