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MUZAFFARGARH, April 13: Police on Friday registered a case against 26 labourers for damaging property, thrashing officials and instigating workers to stage protest rally against the construction company working at the Taunsa Barrage rehabilitation and modernization.
Up to 3,000 workers of the construction company had blocked roads and burnt offices for not paying their salaries.
Descon company manager Manzoor Hussain got a case registered with Daira Din Pannah police station.
The complainant allege`d that Muhammad Shoaib, Tahir Abbas, Afzal, Arshad, Safdar and others on April 8 had instigated other workers for violence against company officials. He further alleged that these workers later burnt offices, held hostage officials and thrashed them also. He claimed that workers had also damaged property worth Rs1 million.
On the other hand, labourers threatened to go on strike if their leaders were arrested.
Labourers Afzal and others said the company had exploited their rights and many a time delayed their salaries. They said one of their colleague’s wife had died because he had no money to buy medicines.
RALLY: Bar members took out a rally on Friday in support of justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry.
Lawyers started the rally from the district court which terminated at Qinwan Chowk. Activists of the PPP and Jamaat-i-Islami also took part in the protest rally.
Addressing the rally, bar president Zubaidul Islam Khan Sherwani and other members criticized the government for putting on trial the judiciary.
They said that they would standby the non-functional Chief Justice of Pakistan.
PROTEST: Scores of farmers of Mauza Lalpur protested against a qanoongo and a patwari for embezzling their 50 acres of land during the land reforms (Ishtamal) held at Mauza l.
Reports said the total area of Mauza Lalpur was 2,880 acres and after land reforms the area was now 2,830 acre.
