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GUJRANWALA, April 2: The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) has given an ultimatum to police that medical officers of civil hospitals will go on strike if an MPA and his men involved in manhandling the Ghakkhar RHC medical officer are not arrested.
Talking to newsmen here on Wednesday, PMA president Dr Ishtiaq Safdar Tarar said that MPA Mian Mazhar Javed and his men had intruded into the office of MO Dr Muhammad Akram Bagri and manhandled him after exchanging harsh words.
He said that during the initial stage of strike emergency service would be provided to patients, but it would be suspended if their demands were not accepted.
The PMA, he said, had formed an action committee of senior doctors headed by PMA former president Dr Gulzar Ahmad to decide the future course of action.
About two dozen Nazims of the district council and other public representatives of Ghakkhar town supported the MPA and threatened to table a motion at the floor of the district assembly if the MO was not suspended from service.
They accused that MO Dr Akram Bagri had humiliated the MPA and his men when they visited the Ghakkhar RHC.
GIVEN IN CUSTODY: The district and sessions judge on Wednesday gave an accused involved in criminal cases again in police custody who was recovered by a bailiff from a police station some two days ago.
Model Town police took Younas Shah in custody on suspicion of dacoity and theft cases and was being interrogated by an investigating officer. He allegedly confessed to his involvement in some dacoity and theft cases while police also recovered looted goods on his pointation.
Heirs of the accused moved court pleading that he was being kept in illegal confinement. A bailiff raided the Model Town police station and retrieved him from the lock-up and produced him before court. The judge summoned the Model Town SHO and investigating officer.
On Wednesday, they appeared before court and informed the judge that the accused was involved in criminal cases as area people also identified him. The judge gave the accused again in police custody when the SHO requested court that the accused should not be freed as he was arrested after some hectic efforts. Later, police have arrested him and registered a case against him.
