GUJRANWALA: The wife of a school principal along with her 25-year-old daughter and a minor son committed suicide by taking poisonous pills over the second marriage issue in the Cantonment area on Thursday.

Muhammad Ayub, principal of an Eminabad school, had contracted second marriage without the permission of his first wife, Farhat Bibi, 45, who was residing in Allama Iqbal Town along with her children.

On Thursday, she quarrelled with Ayub over the issue and demanded divorce from him. He rejected her demand and went to his second wife.

Farhat felt dejected. She allegedly swallowed poisonous pills and also gave the same to her daughter, Sidra, and nine-year-old son Taimoor. They were taken to the CMH in a critical condition where they died. Cantt police handed over the bodies to Farhat’s family.

ARRESTED: FIA arrested three money changers for running business without licence and seized foreign currency from their possession.

FIA Deputy Director Khalid Anis said the raiding party, led by Inspector Sajjad Ahmad, conducted raids in Bano Bazaar, Sialkot, and arrested money exchanger Ahsan Tabark and seized Rs4.52m, 300 Euros and 320 Omani riyals from him.

The team also raided adjacent money changers and arrested Malik Sajid and Muhammad Nauman and recovered 10,500 Saudi Riyal, 4,050 Euros, 3,000 UAE Dirhams, 2,050 dollars and Rs52,000 from them.

Meanwhile, a team of the Anti-Corruption Establishment, led by SI Waqar Awan, raided Sui Gas Regional Office in Gujrat and arrested a sub-engineer of the company, identified as Sajjad, for conniving with gas thieves.

A corruption case was registered against Head Constable Imtiaz Ahmad of the Saddar police station for getting extortion from one Abdul Hamid of Pipliwala village.

ATC: Anti-Terrorism Court judge Chaudhry Imtiaz Ahmad extended for four days physical remand of Navid and Abu Bakar, who were allegedly involved in killing of former PML-N MPA Rana Shamshad Ahmad Khan, son Shahbaz Ahmad Khan and friend Shakir Ali.

Published in Dawn, August 28th, 2015

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