Two prisoners escape

Published May 13, 2006

TOBA TEK SINGH, May 12: Two prisoners managed to escape from the under-construction district jail here on Friday. Fakhar Azam of Jhang and Nasir Khan of Peshawar were convicted by a court for three years hard jail each in a narcotic case. They were brought from the Jhang district jail along with 50 other prisoners to work at the local under-construction jail, but they made good their escape.

Till the filing of this report, the police failed to re-arrest fleeing prisoners.

RESOLUTIONS: Resolutions were passed in almost all mosques in Friday congregations in which the German government was condemned for the killing of a Pakistani youth in police custody.

Ulema in their sermons urged the people to attend the funeral prayers of the late Amer Cheema after his body reached Pakistan.

ARRESTED: Pirmahal police unearthed on Friday two fake beverage factories and arrested six people for manufacturing beverages of known brands.

On the information provided by the company’s sales manager, the police raided the Wahgi Adda and Chak 728-GB from where hundreds of fake bottles of beverages were recovered. Police also arrested Naeem, Iqbal, Afzal, Asghar, Hameed and Abid and registered cases against them under sections 420 and 487 PPC. — Correspondent

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