February 29, 2008	Friday	Safar 21, 1429

GUJRANWALA, Feb 28: The Anti-Corruption Establishment has registered a case against six Revenue Department officials, including a tehsildar, for ‘illegal’ transfer of agricultural land.

Sisters Surraya and Safia owned 11 kanal agricultural land each in Kot Shah Muhammad village. They leased out their land to Habibullah for farming. Habibullah prepared fake documents of the land, produced two women in a court and got the land transferred to his brother Akhter Ali’s name. Tehsildar Muhammad Jamil, patwari Muhammad Riaz and other officials allegedly helped Habibullah get the land transferred to his brother’s name.

On learning this, Surraya’s son Muhammad Arshed complained to the ACE additional director, who ordered a case against the tehsildar, patwari and others.

RPO: Police will protect industrialists and investors at all costs, a top regional police official said here on Thursday.

Speaking at the Gujranwala Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI), Regional Police Officer (RPO) Tehsin Anwer Shah said police had detected 34 kidnap-for-ransom cases and rescued those abducted in 30 cases.

Earlier, GCCI President Riaz Mehmood Bajwa asked Shah to protect businessmen against robberies, kidnap-for-ransom and other crimes. He said investors were reluctant to invest here because of the poor law and order.

ROOF COLLAPSE: A minor boy was killed and seven others were injured when the roof of a house collapsed in Garjakh on Thursday.

Shahid and his family members were asleep when the roof of a room caved in. As Shahid’s children were sleeping in that room, his eight-year-old son Shoaib died under the rubble and seven other members of the family were injured. Later, locals rescued them and took them to the district hospital, where their condition was said to be stable.

Govt warned: People will topple the incumbent regime if the rulers do not transfer power to the newly elected representatives or try to convert their victory in the Feb 18 election into their defeat, a deposed judge of the Lahore High Court (LHC) said here on Thursday.

Speaking at the district bar, deposed judge MA Shahid Siddiqi paid a rich tribute to deposed chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry for his stand against the dictator. He eulogised lawyers for launching a vigorous movement across Pakistan for reinstatement of the chief justice and other judges. He said President Pervez Musharraf deprived the judges of their official status by using the Provisional Constitution Order, but he could not deprive them of people’s love. He urged the wining parties to restore judges at the earliest.

Earlier, bar president Malik Shaukat Ali and others welcomed the judge at the function.