June 19, 2007	Tuesday	Jamadi-us-Sani 03, 1428

GUJRANWALA, June 18: A joint investigation team has completed the chargesheet against accused Sibtul Hassan Shah alias Double Shah and his agents which will be submitted to the anti-terrorism court No 2 on Tuesday (today), a police source said here on Monday.

The court had returned the chargesheet, submitted by the Wazirabad Saddar police about a fortnight back, with the direction to assign the task to a joint investigation team, headed by an SP (investigation).

The team has reportedly completed the chargesheet after scrutiny of the record concerned and putting statements of 29 witnesses in the list besides the recovery made from the houses of the accused.

TAKES NOTE: The district and sessions judge has taken a serious notice of implicating a teenager in seven criminal cases for not giving a backhander to an investigating officer and other police officers.

Judge Mazhar Hussain sought comments from the judicial magistrate concerned and police record in a petition filed by the victim’s mother here on Monday.

Petitioner Nasim Akhter of Garjakh told court that the Civil Lines police had arrested her son Shakir Iqbal (18) a taxi driver, for a robbery bid on May 6. She said her son was later implicated in buffalo and donkey-cart theft cases.

She also informed the court that, on her refusal to pay Rs100,000 in bribe for the release of her son, the police involved Iqbal in four more criminal cases.

Despite the fact that the judicial magistrate and the prosecution were aware of the wrongdoings of the law, she said her son was sent to jail on a judicial remand.

The court adjourned the case till June 28.

RELEASED: Five opposition activists were released from the Faisalabad jail. Those released are: Jamaat-i-Islami’s Hafiz Hamiduddin Awan, Taufiq Ahmed Butt, Rehmatullah, Nazir Ahmad and Haroon Hamid.

GAS CYLINDER: Over 50 gas cylinder manufacturers and shopkeepers were arrested on Monday for marketing substandard cylinders and refilling them without adopting precautionary measures.

Police have sent them to jail on judicial remand.

The district administration also issued notices to gas cylinder manufacturers and shopkeepers to get the no-objection certificate (NOC) from the district administration.

About 450 shops were selling gas cylinders illegally while steel sheets being used in these cylinders were also of the poor quality.

BUSTED: The police claimed to have arrested 544 members of 150 gangs of robbers, 4,382 absconders and 3,138 court fugitives besides recovering illicit arms and looted goods worth Rs88 million in the last five months.

DIG Saud Aziz said that about a dozen outlaws had been killed in 20 encounters.