GUJRANWALA, June 12: The bail application of two sisters, who were allegedly raped by policemen at a police station during a dacoity case interrogation, was rejected by a local court here on Monday.

District bar association president Ilyas Rehan pursued the case on behalf of the sisters while police opposed their bail for want of recovery.

Meanwhile, additional sessions judge Abid Husain Qureshi issued a show-cause notice to the Satellite Town SHO for not submitting a case report.

While ASJ Zafar Iqbal Naeem accepted bail applications of 15 accused, including a former union council nazim and a police inspector, who were caught red-handed under the influence at a hotel a few days ago.

The judge directed the accused to furnish surety bonds worth Rs30,000 each.

Model Town police had conducted a raided on a VIP hotel and arrested former Ladheywala nazim Naeem Safdar, Motorway police inspector M Asif, three girls of Lahore and others.

EXECUTION: The local Anti-Terrorism Court No 2 on Monday ordered deferring of the execution of a murder convict for five days as mediation between the two parties was going on.

The court had already issued the black warrant against convict Muhammad Abbas of Ladheywala village after upper courts rejected his appeals while the president had also cast away his clemency appeal.

The court had fixed June 14 for his execution.

REMANDED: A local court on Monday handed over 11 human smugglers to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on physical remand.

Reports said that FIA raiding teams had arrested accused Muhammad Javed, Ijaz Haider, Chaudhry Masood Akhtar, Mehr Muhammad Tufail, Naveed Ahmad, Munawar Hussain, Mukhtar Ahmad, Sajid Mahmood, Abdul Rehman, Shahbaz Ahmad and Abdul Sattar from various towns of the division.

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