TOBA TEK SINGH, Dec 27: Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) officials arrested on Monday a hospital sanitary worker for fabricating bone fractures to get medico-legal certificates.

Former councilor Saqib Ghafoor, of Chak 296-GB, reported to the ACE that Jamil Masih, a sanitary worker with the Toba District Headquarters hospital, had made instruments used in making fabricated fractures to the bones of those people who wanted to get medico-legal certificates to get registered cases against their opponents. Jameel would charge the people Rs10,000 per fracture. ACE officials raided Chak 323-JB and recovered instruments from Jamil. STOLEN:

Thieves took away goods worth tens of thousands from two shops at Uggi Adda in Rajana late on Sunday. An auto store shop owner said the thieves loaded valuables worth over Rs450,000 in a van stolen from two shops. A police post is a few hundred meters from both shops.

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