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FAISALABAD, Oct 29: Police claimed on Saturday to have lodged a case against the Lyallpur Town nazim and nine others for kidnapping and torturing the husband of a labour councillor candidate.
Khursheed Bibi, a resident of Chak 120-JB, claimed that she was a candidate for the labour councillor of the city district council and was going to attend an election meeting when Rana Zahid Mahmood, a candidate for Lyallpur Town nazim, and his nine accomplices took her husband Muhammad Akram to some unknown place on Oct 2.
They tortured her husband and illegally confined her, besides threatening them with dire consequences.
The Nishatbad police have registered the case under section 109, 148, 149, 337, 343, 365 and 382 of PPC on the orders of the Supreme Court.
Meanwhile, the Tandlianwala police have rounded up four woman dancers and several urchins from a funfair in Chak 402-GB.
Reports said a police contingent raided a funfair and arrested four dancers and a dozen urchins for spreading obscenity.
The police claimed that the funfair was being held in violation of the government instructions.
RAPE: A vagabond raped a girl in Naseerabad in the Sargodha Road police area on Saturday.
The girl, hardly five years of age, was playing in the street of Naseerabad when the vagabond took her to a deserted place and raped her. The girl was recovered unconscious.
A case has been registered under the Hudood Ordinance.
MEAT PRODUCTS: Owing to negligence of the local administration and officials of the health department, butchers in both urban and rural areas are selling injurious mutton, chicken and beef and that, too, at high rates.
During a round of different localities of Lyallpur, Madina, Jinnah and Iqbal Towns, it was observed that butchers were selling mutton at Rs240 per kilogramme against Rs160 fixed by the local administration. Beef is being sold at Rs120 per kg instead of its fixed price of Rs75. The prices of chicken have also jumped during Ramazan.
