July 10, 2008	Thursday	Rajab 6, 1429

GUJRANWALA, July 9: The Food Department on Wednesday foiled an attempt to smuggle around 11,000 flour bags weighing 20kg each to tribal area and issued notices to six millers for allegedly getting fake permits.

Reports said a joint team of the Food Department and police stopped some trucks laden with flour bags at the Chenab bridge, Wazirabad, and found fake permits from the vehicles’ staff.

The raiding party seized the bags and took them to godowns. The food department issued notices to six millers, including flour mill association district secretary-general Khalid Tanveer.

DEATH AWARDED: A sessions court handed down death sentence on two counts each to accused Taufiq and Rafique along with fine worth Rs1.2 million in a double murder case here on Wednesday.

They will have to undergo one-year rigorous imprisonment in case of default. Judge Raja Arshad Mehmood ordered to pay compensation worth Rs200,000 to heirs of the deceased.

The court acquitted three co-accused Sultan, Ilyas and Allah Rakha by giving them the benefit of the doubt.

According to the prosecution, the convicts had killed one Fayaz Ahmed and his wife Mumtaz Bibi during a decoity bid on offering resistance in Kamoke Saddar on Jan 3, 2006.

PRISONER DIES: A prisoner was found dead under mysterious circumstances in his barrack at central jail on Wednesday.

Reports said Baghbanpura police had arrested accused Qadeer Ahmed in a theft case and later sent him to jail on judicial remand.

On Wednesday, he was found dead in his barrack. The jail administration claimed that he died of heart attack. The body was handed over to his heirs after completing formalities.

STRIKE CALLED OFF: The sanitary staff of Qila Dedar Singh Town on Wednesday called off their strike when the administration accepted some of their demands.

The sanitary staff had been demanding to regularise daily wagers, provide necessary articles for cleanliness and release their salaries.

The town administration provided them the articles and released their salaries.

AMENITIES: The Gujranwala Development Authority is providing better facilities to citizens while necessary arrangements are being made to pump out rain water from streets and bazaars during monsoon.

Speaking at a meeting, GDA director-general Tahir Yousaf said Wasa had already completed desilting process of almost all drains. He pointed out that all truck addas and cattle market would be shifted outside the city.