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MULTAN, June 20: People attacked and thrashed a raiding team of the Multan Electricity Supply Company on Friday as a result of which two officials landed in hospital.
A Mepco team led by Walayatabad sub-divisional officer Umer Lodhi entered the city’s Sujan Singh area to detect power theft cases.
The SDO said the team initially detected three such cases, and was combing the area to find more when people came out of their houses and started arguing with the Mepco team.
Later on, some 14 people attacked the team when they found it stick to its pursuit. Most of the team members ran away, but the mob caught driver Tahir Khalil and meter reader Saleem and gave them a sound thrashing. The latter reportedly sustained serious injuries.
On the other hand, the area people claimed that they took the Mepco team as a ‘gang of thieves’ as they were throwing searchlights on their houses at midnight, but the SDO belied their claim.
A case was registered with the Jaleelabad police against 10 nominated and four unidentified assailants on the report of Mepco officials.
All 10 nominated accused had been arrested. They are: Shahbaz, Arshad, Saleem, Shahzad, Shahid, Ishfaq, Altaf, Qaiser Abbas, Rahman and Bahadur.
SHOT DEAD: A fireman was shot dead by two unidentified assailants here on Friday.
Akhtar Husain was on his way home when two motorcyclists opened fire on him near Pul Sheedi Lal. He sustained critical injuries and was taken to the Nishtar Hospital where he died.
The family suspected that Shakil’s in-laws were involved in his murder.
POLICY: The education department has yet to finalize recruitment policy for the district governments even after the passage of almost two years to the introduction of devolution plan.
Hundreds of teaching and non-teaching posts are lying vacant with almost each of the 34 districts of the province due to the absence of any recruitment policy.
Recently, all executive district officers (education) have received a letter from the education secretariat to refrain the district governments from making recruitments, stating that the policy in this regard had yet to be finalized.
