MANSEHRA, May 17: The row between the principal and the Class-IV employees of Pakistan Scout Cadet College (PSCC) Batrasi was resolved late on Friday night when the alleged victim of torture, a waiter in the college, Khalilur Rehman reached the college along with his mother and a brother and apologized to the principal in the presence of the officiating district Nazim Jehangir Nasim Khan and the notables of the area.

EDO (health) Dr Syed Pervez Ali Shah, who is also the visiting medical officer of the PSCC, local elders Syed Mubarak Shah, Sardar Mohammad Jamil, Mushtaq Ahmad Awan and the kins of Khalilur Rehman were also present on this occasion.

They expressed concern over the mudslinging campaign against the PSCC principal Brig (retd) Syed Sajid Hussain Shah and termed it a pre-planned conspiracy to damage the good name of a reputed educational institution.

Khalilur Rehman confessed that he was instigated by his colleagues to join hands with them in their campaign against the principal. He said that he was lured by their promise of making him the president of the class-IV employees union.

He said that on Friday, when he was sleeping in Class-IV employees ward of the hospital, his colleagues broke open the door and tried to forcefully take him away from the college premises.

He said they were intending to block the road by showing him dead and to rouse the people to storm the PSCC. He said that Friday was specially selected for this purpose to attract more people from the Friday congregations.

Khalil said that he was not aware of the fact that his colleagues had made announcements in the mosques of the nearby villages that he was shot dead by the principal. He confessed that all the drama was staged by his colleagues on the behest of a contractor who in the past supplied sub-standard material to the college due to which his contract was cancelled.