April 21, 2008	Monday	Rabi-us-Sani 14, 1429

NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, April 20: Two orphan sisters and their relatives staged a demonstration outside the press club in Tharushah on Sunday in protest against police failure to get their farmland vacated and arrest the accused who had driven them out of their homes.

Naima, 9, and Saima, 12, with their uncle Shabbir and a number other relatives complained that their father late Ali Saghar Sehto had leased out his farmland for four years to one Asghar Ali Veesar due to their mother’s illness. The illness took their mother’s life followed by the death of their father Ali Asghar Sehto in 2005.

They told journalists that after the expiry of four-year lease on Oct 7, 2007, they cultivated wheat on their land. When the crop was ready for harvest, they alleged, Asghar Ali Veesar, raided the field with his armed men and forcibly took possession of the crop and the land, they said.

They said that they registered an FIR at Padidan police station against Asghar Ali and his men on April 10 this year but the police had neither arrested the accused nor done anything to vacate their land since then.

They said that Asghar Ali Veesar became so infuriated with the FIR that he attacked their houses with his armed men and drove them out of their homes. They were forced to live with their relatives in Tharushah, they said.

They appealed to the Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah, IGP, RPO and the DPO to order an impartial inquiry and take action against police for not arresting the accused.