June 13, 2008	Friday	Jamadi-us-Sani 08, 1429

HYDERABAD, June 12: Cases have been lodged at different police stations against people who had taken to the streets in protest against power loadshedding and ransacked offices of Hyderabad Electric Supply Company during the last couple of days in the city.

The cases have been lodged at Phulelli, A-section and Hussainabad police stations after Hesco offices, including that of its chief executive officer and a customer care centre, were ransacked by angry people. However, no one has been named in the FIRs which have been registered against hundreds of people.

Hesco SDO Kanwar Rehan lodged a case at the A-section police and SDO Tahir Habib lodged another case at the Phulelli police station. Yet another case was registered by the Hussainabad police on the complaint of Hesco security in-charge Irfanul Haq. The cases have been registered under sections 147, 148, 149, 353 and 427 of the Pakistan Penal Code against unidentified people.

SUICIDE: A 40-year-old man, Arif Arain, committed suicide in his house in the Latifabad area here on Thursday due to domestic problems.

Arif, an employee of the revenue department and father of five, hanged himself with a ceiling fan in his room. His wife had gone to her parents’ home with the children when the incident occurred.