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TOBA TEK SINGH, Jan 20: Students of a Kamalia school boycotted their classes and blocked Toba-Kamalia Road on Tuesday after a dispute with the school administration.
They also forcibly took four buses to their school after a clash with transporters. Reports said administration of Tameer-i-Millat Higher Secondary School had rusticated class X students Ahsan Ali and Muhammad Suhail for misbehaving with teachers. The two were also accused of extorting money from transporters after blackmailing them.
Vice-principal Chaudhry Suhail Nasir objected when Ahsan and Suhail reportedly came to school on Monday. The two left the school while threatening the vice-principal of dire consequences.
Ahsan and Suhail, with the help of their friends, attacked and injured the vice-principal when he was on his way to home. Principal Chaudhry Iftikhar Ahmad informed the police about the incident. This infuriated the students who boycotted their classes and blocked Toba-Kamalia Road. They took four private buses to their school after a clash with their owners.
Police were called who took control of the buses and returned them to the owners. Kamalia Saddar police had not registered a case till the filing of this report.
BAR PROTEST: Lawyers observed two-hour strike on Tuesday on the call given by the Gojra Tehsil Bar Association. For the last three days, lawyers have been protesting over the demolition of the chamber of Bar members by the TMA staff.
A police party remained at the tehsil court and the TMA staff did not demolish more chambers of lawyers. The tehsil municipal administration had launched an operation clean-up a few days ago to demolish all chambers of lawyers which had been built on TMA land. A court had granted stay to the lawyers in this regard.
Tehsil Nazim Chaudhry Khalid Javed Warraich said the stay order was for 10 X 10 feet chambers while some lawyers had unlawfully encroached more than 10 X 40 feet land.
He regretted that the police were not cooperating with the TMA in its operation clean-up in spite of a request in this regard. Gojra ASP Saqib Iqbal Memon said that the TMA letter had no mention when or where police would be required for the operation.Meanwhile, the Gojra Bar decided at a meeting presided over by its president Chaudhry Shafiq Akram Gujjar on Tuesday that the two-hour strike would be continued.
