GUJRANWALA, Jan 6: Police registered a case against seven traffic wardens for allegedly manhandling a UK-returned family in Wazirabad on Thursday.

Police said the family was traveling from Sialkot to Gujrat in their vehicle. Near Fawara Chowk in Wazirabad, a traffic warden stopped them and tried to ticket them for traffic rules violation. The family, however, started exchanging words with the warden.

In the ensuing scuffle, the warden and his colleagues allegedly manhandled them. The family blocked GT Road through parking their vehicles in the middle of the road.

Later, the family got medico-legal certificates and got registered an FIR against seven traffic wardens.

Police said Zeeshan, Usman, Mumtaz, Jehanzeb and Saima were injured in the scuffle. The family alleged warden took away valuables from the vehicles.

Police registered a case against Farhan Rafiq, Muhammad Shakeel, Ahsan, Nawaz, Asif Mehmood, Rizwan and Asim under 337/AI, 337/12 and 379 sections of the Pakistan Penal Code. PHONE CONNECTIONS :

Over 1,200 telephone connections have been lying dead while a water supply pipeline has been damaged for the last three days during the earth digging by the National Highway Authority (NHA) to build a road in Ghakkhar Town.

Telephone and water supply consumers protested against the NHA and demanded the immediate restoration of the utility services. They also protested on GT Road on Thursday.

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