April 24, 2006	Monday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 25, 1427

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GUJRANWALA, April 23: A joint raiding team of the agriculture department and district administration seized spurious fertiliser in sizable quantity from Ghakkar Town and arrested an accused on Sunday.

Reports said that farmers had lodged complaints that they were suffering financial losses as their crops damaged badly due to the use of spurious fertiliser being supplied to them by Grain Market shopkeepers.

The raiding party, led by Wazirabad judicial magistrate Ghulam Mustafa, raided the Ghakkhar Town grain market where agency holder Shabbir Hussain was found supplying spurious fertiliser to farmers. The raiding party seized around 1,150 bags of spurious fertilisers and sealed the godown. The police also arrested the accused and registered a case against him.

GANG-RAPED: A teenaged girl was gang-raped by five youths in Ugo Bhinder village in Wahando while police claimed to have arrested two accused on Sunday.

Victim ‘S’ was on her way to a nearby field when accused Nawaz Bhinder, Shahnawaz and their accomplices overpowered her and gang-raped her.

Police were conducting raids for the arrest of the remaining three accused.