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FAISALABAD, July 2: An additional district and sessions judge, Sadaqatullah, has adjourned till July 7 a plea moved by the brother of an alleged suspect in a Rs100 million plot case. The judge asked the Faisalabad Range DIG on Saturday to reply to the allegations. Sardar Muhammad, the brother of deceased Karam Elahi, had filed an application with the AD&SJ, pointing finger at senior police officials who, he said, had staged an encounter in the name of operation against plot grabbers.
The complainant’s counsel pleaded that the court should order registration of a case against the policemen, who had shot dead Karam Elahi. Saddar police SHO Ayub Sahi appeared before the court on behalf of the police.
After preliminary hearing, the court adjourned the case till July 7 and asked the DIG to file a detailed report on the matter.
ADDICT KILLED: An addict was clubbed to death by five others at Chak 235-RB in Saddar police station area on Friday night.
Reports said Dildar Ahmad was attacked by five other addicts, Shahid, Umer, Natho, Billa and Eidoo, over some dispute. Dildar suffered head injuries and died on the spot.
Area police have registered a case against the suspects.
PROTEST: Residents of Narwala Road, Millat Road and Pansera Road have threatened to stage a demonstration in front of the district council complex on Monday (tomorrow) to protest against imposition of toll.
Talking to journalists on Saturday, a group of villagers, led by Shahbaz Ahmad Kissana, said the district government had imposed toll on major roads in the district in the budget for 2004-05. However, the local government withdrew it in the wake of protest by elected representatives from major roads but left some internal roads of Thikriwala and its adjoining areas as they were.
They said they were assured by the district nazim and other senior officials of withdrawal of toll from roads of in 2005-06 fiscal, but the district government had started collecting toll.
They further claimed that the Punjab Local Government and Rural Development Department had also declared toll illegal and asked the local councils not to charge the people.
