June 06, 2006	Tuesday	Jumadi-ul-Awwal 9, 1427

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MIANWALI, June 5: EDO (Health) Captain (retired) Mumtaz Ahmed on Monday sealed his office store after he came to know that some unscrupulous elements of the district health office had supplied expired medicines to some 40 RHCs in the district.

Reports said the health department had purchased medicines from a blacklisted company under the Punjab Rural Supports Programme (PRSP). The company supplied out-dated medicines, and corrupt officials, to conceal the fact, crossed the dates with a marker before supplying these to RHCs.

The drug inspector also confirmed the supply of expired medicines to patients. The EDO (health) has ordered an inquiry against corrupt officials.

CONDEMN: The District Union of Journalists and the District Press Club in an emergent meeting here on Monday condemned the DPO for not registering a case against the influential accused for abducting and torturing a school headmaster.

The meeting was presided over by DPC president Haji Mushtaq Hussain Malik.

Participants demanded the registration of the case against feudal lord Mushtaq Husain Khan of Piplan, his accomplices Shah Sawar and Javaid Chaudhry of VTI for abducting and roughing up of the Government High School headmaster.

They said that a false case had been registered against the victim instead under the Telegraphic Act on the pressure of a provincial minister and politicians.

Thrashed: A lawyer was thrashed allegedly by his rival party on the district courts premises here on Monday.

The incident took place outside the court of senior civil judge Shabbir Husain Awan.

When the police refused to register a case, the lawyers called a meeting of the District Bar Association at the barroom. They raised slogans against the police for not arresting the accused. Injured lawyer Hayatullah Khan was also present at the meeting.

District and sessions judge Baqir Ali Rana visited the barroom and assured the lawyers that their grievance would be redressed and an FIR registered against the culprits at the earliest.

DEATH SENTENCE: Additional district and sessions judge Muhammad Afzal Shaad, camp at Isakhel, has awarded death sentence with a fine of Rs100,000 to a drug trafficker, Aslam Khan, of Qamar-Mushani.