OKARA: A family in Deepalpur’s Bosan village beat up a polio vaccine team and damaged the boxes of vials it was carrying on Friday.

A district health department’s team headed by Lady Health Worker Mumtaz Bibi came to a Bosan village area to administer polio drops to children when Muhammad Arif and his family put up resistance and browbeat the visitors. This led to an exchange of word between the officials and Arif’s family, who flew into rage and beat up the team and also broke their boxes.

The Deepalpur Saddar police registered a case against seven people -- Arif, Waris, Tariq, Sharafat Ali, Rubina, Shahnaz and Zahida Bibi -- on the complaint of Mumtaz Bibi.

LAWYERS: The Okara Saddar police have registered a case against 13 lawyers who allegedly thrashed some DCO Office employees.

Amir Shahzad, in-charge Arms Licence Branch at the DCO Office, complained to police that Advocate Zaheer Abbas of the District Bar Association came to his office and asked him to accommodate him out of turn but he refused. After some time, the lawyer along with 10 or 12 colleagues stormed the branch and started beating him and security guards, he said.

Police registered a case against 13 lawyers under sections 353, 186, 148 and 149 of PPC.

Published in Dawn, December 19th, 2015