May 15, 2007	Tuesday	Rabi-us-Sani 27, 1428

GUJAR KHAN, May 14: Three persons including two women were arrested and later released for blocking the GT Road along with other family members here on Monday. According to the police, four women including minor children came to the SDPO office to lodge a complaint against the Jatli police for registration of a case against one of their relatives.

DSP Raja Taifur Akhtar after listening to their complaint forwarded their application to the SHO Jatli police to produce the file of the case.

However, after leaving the office these ladies accompanied by a man of their village came to the GT Road and stood in the way of the vehicular traffic carrying the minor kids.

They started chanting slogans against the SHO Jatli. They alleged that the Jatli police had implicated their family member, Noman Salim, in a false case of firing on the pressure of an influential person.

After seeing the women on the road, the DSP along with some policemen rushed to the scene and brought them back to his office.

The DSP told them that he had directed the SHO concerned to look into the matter and there was no justification for the women to try to block the road.

The DSP directed SHO Gujar Khan Syed Ghulam Abbas Shah to register a case against the protesters including Liaquat Hussain, Ms Fazal Jan and Ms Mahmood Akhtar, residents of Ishaal Sharif, Jatli. However, the women with minor kids were not included in the FIR, the DSP office sources said. These persons were booked under section 341/54 PPC and later they were granted bail by a civil court.

Sources confirmed that Noman Salim was the only breadwinner of his family consisting of about 20 members including his minor children, two younger brothers and an old mother.

The sources said Noman’s opponents had trespassed into his house and attacked his family members in his absence. However, the police have failed to arrest the attackers despite registration of a case by the poor family with the Jatli police.s