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FAISALABAD, June 2: A police team forcibly entered the house of a doctor and picked him along with his son for default to pay Rs1.6 million loan here on Sunday night.
Sheikh Munir, the owner of a car showroom, claimed before the police that Dr Jamil Bhutta, the owner of a private medical college, and his son Haroon had obtained Rs1.6 million loan from him a couple of years ago but failed to pay back.
On Sunday night, a dozen policemen in plain clothes forced their entry into the house of Dr Bhutta and picked him and his son Haroon. Police claimed that a case had been registered against them on fraud charges.
Meanwhile, the wife of Dr Bhutta denied the allegations of fraud and said her husband obtained Rs1.6 million loan from Sheikh Munir on a huge markup. He (doctor) paid Rs1.8 million, including the markup, to Sheikh Munir but he refused to return the documents of loan.
She alleged that local police had struck a deal with Munir and arrested her husband. The police in connivance with Munir also tampered with some of the papers of the document and showed the amount of loan Rs16 million instead of Rs1.6 million.
She demanded the Punjab IGP to take notice of the police highhandedness and take action against the officials responsible for violating the sanctity of private premises.
suicide: A youth allegedly committed suicide over a domestic problem in Chak 61-JB in the limits of Thikriwala police station on Monday.
Nisar Ahmad, 15, the son of labourer Zulfiqar, hanged himself with a rope tied to a ceiling fan after an altercation with his family members.
SHOT DEAD: Seven members of a family shot dead their rival in a bazaar of Jaranwala on Monday.
Muhammad Tufail was going to bazaar when his rivals Bashir, Anwar, Sarwar, Yasin, Mukhtar, Mushtaq and Jamal Din allegedly shot him dead and fled from the scene.
Police claimed that both the families had an old enmity. Tufail was on bail in a murder case of uncle of the accused.
ROOF COLLAPSE: A labourer was killed while two others sustained injuries, one of them serious, when roof of a factory caved in in Samanabad here on Sunday night.
About a dozen labourers were working on powerlooms in the hall of the factory when its roof collapsed. Three workers sustained multiple injuries and were rushed to hospital. Gulzar Ahmad succumbed to his injuries, while injured Maqsood and Abdul Rahim were admitted to the hospital. The condition of Maqsood was stated to be critical.
