TOBA TEK SINGH: Additional District and Sessions Judge Ghulam Murtaza granted on Wednesday pre-arrest bail to Awami Workers Party district president Chaudhry Zubair who was allegedly involved in riots occurred on Monday after a shutter-down strike against the custodial killing of a citizen.

Awami Workers Party central secretary-general Farooq Tariq and Pakistan Kissan Committee central chief Chaudhry Fateh Muhammad condemned the registration of a false case against Chaudhry Zubair and other innocent citizens.

Judicial magistrate Saifullah Babar also released on bail seven persons who were arrested on Monday for their alleged involvement in riots.

Meanwhile, the district bar association in its general body meeting with president Mian Mansoor in the chair decided on Wednesday to observe a strike on Thursday (today) in protest against police for its failure to arrest sub-inspector Akhtar Saeed Bhinder and two constables involved in the custodial killing of Shahid.

CORRUPTION CASE: The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) registered on Wednesday a corruption case against a Saddar police ASI for taking bribe of Rs100,000.

The FIR registered on the application of Khalid Javed of Chak 397-JB stated that accused ASI Muhammad Nazir had demanded Rs300,000 as bribe from him for declaring his arrested relative Muhammad Tayyab as innocent, but he sent him to jail for not paying the remaining amount.

The accused ASI was recently reverted as ASI from the post of sub-inspector for doing wrong investigation in another case. The accused ASI is still not arrested.

SCHOLARSHIPS: The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Faisalabad, awarded on Wednesday Quaid Azam scholarships to 15 students of the Toba district for getting through the annual matriculation examination with distinction.

An education department official said that students Umer Maqbool (1,061 marks), Zainab Rauf (1,053 marks), Ahmad Faheem (1,050 marks), Hira Hameed and Samiullah (1,046 marks each), Rumisha Imran (1,045 marks), Muhammad Amin (1,044 marks), Muhammad Junaid and Muhammad Hussain (1,039 marks each), Ghulam Fakhruddin (902 marks), Hira Asif (1,001 marks), Rukhsana Asghar (996 marks), Amna Yousaf (985 marks), Samina Kausar (978 marks) and Uzma Kausar (969 marks) were awarded scholarships.

CRUSHED TO DEATH: A seventh class student of Gojra Government Islamia High School was crushed to death on Wednesday by a speeding bus of a private cadet college in Gojra.

Police said that Imtiaz Ahmad of Chak 350-JB was returning from his school when the tragic incident happened.

An unidentified man was crushed to death by a Hazara Express train near Chak 301-JB at Gojra on Wednesday.

The deceased was crossing the rail track when he met with the fatal accident.

STRIKE OBSERVED: A strike was observed on the third consecutive day on Wednesday by all contract teaching staff and other employees of government commerce colleges in the district for not meeting their demands.

They also staged a demonstration outside all colleges in the district.

A spokesman for the Professors and Lecturers Association (CPLA) said that commerce colleges had been shifted from the Punjab Technical Board to the Punjab Higher Education Department about 27 months back, but since then they were not being paid their conveyance, medical, house rent and hard area allowances.

Published in Dawn, November 27th , 2014