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BAHAWALPUR, Sept 29: The police registered a case against three tehsil municipal administration (TMA) officials for their alleged negligence which claimed the life of a boy, Ali Osama, who fell in a manhole in Baghdad Mohajir Colony on Saturday.
The case was registered on the directives of DCO Muhammed Mushtaq Ahmad and Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif against TMA chief officer Naeemul Hasan, sanitary supervisor Mahmood and a sanitary worker, Najmuddin.
Mahmood and Najamuddin were arrested while raids were being conducted to arrest the chief officer.
Punjab Special Education Minister Malik Muhammed Iqbal Channar visited the bereaved family on Monday to offer his and chief minister's condolences. He also conveyed the displeasure of the chief minister to the DCO.
On the occasion, locals took out a protest and informed the minister that they had submitted an application to the TMA to provide 150 covers for manholes in the area but to no avail. They demanded that action should also be taken against tehsil nazim and naib nazim.
BODY: The police found the body of a woman abandoned on a garbage heap in Model Town here on Monday.
Unidentified assailants murdered the 35-year-old and threw her body on the heap and fled. The body was sent for identification and autopsy.
OUTAGES: The unscheduled electricity loadshedding by Mepco in the city and suburban areas is affecting the civic life.
Owing to frequent outages, people, especially shopkeepers and customers, are facing hardships ahead of Eid.
MEPCO officials expressed their inability to comment on the situation and said that load management board seated in Islamabad could only explain it.
People have urged the authorities concerned to at least announce the schedule of the loadshedding.
