July 05, 2008	Saturday	Rajab 1, 1429

TOBA TEK SINGH, July 4: The district administration has initiated action against illegal occupants of state land, which is worth millions of rupees.

People having strong politicians behind them had occupied the state land worth Rs50 million in Pirmahal.

District Coordination Officer Chaudhry Muhammad Ashraf said anti-encroachment teams evicted squatters from the state land worth Rs33 million and demolished 162 houses constructed there illegally by influential people. He said 11 cases had been registered against squatters.

About the encroachment of a school land in Toba, Ashraf said the school administration had been told to construct a boundary wall around it to save it from squatters.

ACCIDENT: A woman was killed and her husband injured in a road accident here on Friday.

Bashir Joya of Chak 401-JB was on his way to his brick kiln along with his wife Perveen when a trailer hit their motorcycle near Chak 331-JB of Athwal. As a result, Perveen died at the scene, while injured Joya was taken to the district headquarters hospital.

MURDER: A youth was killed by his uncle and his son over a minor family dispute in Kamalia’s Charhwala locality on Friday. Atif was in his house when his uncle and his son stabbed him to death.

ASI HELD: The City police have arrested its ASI after registering case against him for helping a residential plot fraud case accused.

Salman Sarwar, brother of union council nazim Waheed Sarwar, had sold out a residential plot of his uncle worth Rs 3 million through bogus ownership deeds.

When the case came up for investigation, the ASI rather helped the accused.