HYDERABAD, June 30: Residents of Abdur Rahim Katiyar goth, Bulri Shah Karim, Tando Mohammad Khan, held a protest demonstration outside the press club here on Monday against a criminal assault on a Kohli woman by two persons.

The protesters, including women belonging to scheduled caste, told journalists that the two persons barged into the house of Rashi Kohli on Sunday night and criminally assaulted his wife. They said the Kohlis were issued with threats of dire consequences if they complained to anyone.

They said they lodged an FIR at the Bulri Shah Karim police station but the SHO refused to enter the names of the accused in the FIR and showed them unidentified.

They appealed for justice.

PTCL: PTCL STR-I Hyderabad general manager Syed Mureed Ali Shah has said that due to introduction of an easy procedure, the target of new connections for 2002-3 has been achieved and even surpassed.

He was speaking at a public oureach programme in Qasimabad here on Monday.

He said that the target of 18,000 new connections was fixed for the year but due to the easy procedure and an effective campaign launched by the PTCL, 21,000 new connections were sanctioned which was a record in the region.

He said that the PTCL had not only evolved soft policies for the subscribers but also formulated a strategy to encourage its employees.

He said that the PTCL was also increasing customers services centres in the region to resolve the subscribers’ problems.

He informed the participants that the PTCL had relaxed the rule of document production for installation of new connections at the house where one telephone connection was already availible.

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