BAHAWALPUR, June 20: Samasatta police claimed to have arrested on Sunday night two persons for allegedly burning alive a woman and her daughter at Mauza Tibba Miani, about 30 kilometres from here. One of the arrested men, Jalil Ahmad, is husband of the deceased woman and father of the girl, while the other, Khalil Ahmed, is his brother. Another accused, Nazim, could not be arrested so far.

According to police sources, the deceased girl, Shamaila, had allegedly developed relations with a man of the same locality while her father was in Karachi. Shamaila’s uncle Nazim informed her father about the matter in Karachi, who rushed back home.

Later, Jalil, his brother Khalil and the girls’ uncle Nazim, allegedly tortured Shamaila and her mother Azeem Khatoon. They tied the women to a cot and after sprinkling kerosene oil put them on fire. Both women died on the spot.

Police was conducting raids to arrest the third accused. Meanwhile, after the postmortem examination, the bodies were handed over to their family.

ordinance: The district child rights committee has urged the government to implement the juvenile ordinance.

The demand was made at a meeting held here, attended by police officials and probationers.

The participants regretted that the ordinance was not being implemented effectively which was tantamount to denying justice to the arrested juveniles.

The committee demanded that the police should not torture children after their arrest in a criminal case. Instead, the detained children should be immediately shifted to the nearest borstal within the 24 hours which is mandatory as per the ordinance.

The meeting reviewed at length implementation of the juvenile ordinance, police’s key role, legal aid and facilities to detained children. The participants regretted that children were not being provided with facilities stipulated in the jail manual.

They urged the government to devise ways and means to properly check implementation of jail manual and the juvenile ordinance by the superintendents concerned.

Polio patient: Conflicting reports of a possible polio attack on a six-year-old girl have been received from a Yazman village.

Reports said Aliza of Chak 116-DB had a fever after which her both legs were paralysed. A private medical practitioner of Yazman, after examining the girl, declared that she had been attacked by polio virus.

However, EDO (health) Dr Arshad Iqbal, denying the report said so far Bahawalpur was a polio-free district.

He added that the stool of the sick girl had been sent for analysis to the National Institute of Health, Islamabad, from where the report was expected within a month. He said Aliza was regularly immunized during the past years and there could be some other reasons for her condition.