July 27, 2007	Friday	Rajab 11, 1428

BAHAWALPUR, July 26: A nurse at a private health facility suffered burns in an alleged acid attack here on Thursday. Reports said one Zahid routinely teased Sajida Iqbal, 24, a nurse at a private hospital in Model Town. She complained to Zahid’s parents who reprimanded him for teasing the girl, which infuriated him and he threw acid on Sajida when she was on her way home from the hospital.

She was taken to the Bahawal Victoria Hospital where her condition was stated to be critical.

Police registered a case on the report of the victim’s parents.

CASE: The Rukanpur police on Thursday registered a case against 25 people on the charge of killing an under-trial prisoner. They suspended from service two police officials for negligence.

According to police, the higher-ups had suspended SHO Azim Bhatti, SI Hanif Bhatti, in-charge of the police guard in the van, and two others for dereliction.

A gang of 25 men had stopped a police van the other day and opened indiscriminate fire, making the police officials disappear. Then they pulled out Ayub Manak, an under trial, and shot dead him over old score.

LAND RECOVERED: The Cholistan Development Authority claimed on Thursday to have retrieved over 10,000-kanal agricultural (state) land from the grabbers at 15 villages.

According to a CDA announcement here, standing crops stretching over about 2,500 kanals of the state land also were confiscated.

Meanwhile, Bahawalpur District Nazim Tariq Cheema directed the officials to purge the state land in the district of illegal occupants and initiate uplift projects over there.

Presiding over a meeting of the District Development Committee, he directed the officials concerned to withhold the payments of those contractors who had left work incomplete.

National Logistic Cell district project manager Irshad Qamar informed the meeting that the reconstruction work of two schools in the city had been completed and these were handed over to the education department.

Wapda representatives told the meeting that 80 schemes of village electrification had been completed while another 25 were being executed.