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SUKKUR, Dec 15: An official of the Sindh High Court, Sukkur Bench, raided the Kandhra police station on Friday and recovered two men who were being kept in illegal confinement since the last nine days.
The raid was conducted on the orders of the Sindh High Court, Sukkur Bench, on a petition filed by one Sadiq, a relative of the detained men.
Mr Sadiq stated in the petition that his relatives, Bahauddin and M. Hasan, were arrested by the Kandhra police nine days back without registering an FIR.
The Sindh High Court directed that a raid be conducted to recover the detainees.
The raid commissioner sealed the records of the police station and directed the staff of the Kandhra police station to appear before the court on Dec 15.
WOMEN KILLED: A woman and her sister-in-law were gunned down by a landlord in Abad Patafi village the other day.
A man, Mehmood, son of Umeed Ali Patafi, along with his two brothers-in-law, M. Siddiq and Abdul Ghani, gunned down his 21-year-old wife, Rasshi, on the pretext of Karo-kari.
When Rasshi’s 13-year-old sister-in-law, Shammi, tried to intervene she too was shot dead.
Both the bodies were handed over to their relatives.
No arrest had been reported till the filing of this report.
COTTON GROWERS: About 250 cotton growers on Saturday took out a protest rally against the owners of cotton ginning factories of Ghotki District who were not paying them according to the market rates.
They were led by Abdul Fateh Samejo.
The participants of the rally claimed that the price of cotton in Rahimyar Khan was Rs1,000 per maund while in Ghotki it was Rs850 per maund.
Meanwhile, the growers of Nara Canal complained on Saturday that the irrigation officials were not supplying water according to their share but were instead diverting the water of the Nara Canal to the Rohri Canal.
However, the superintendent engineer, Guddu Barrage, Javed Ahmed Taiyabani, and the officials of Sukkur, Abbas Ali Awan, and Kotri, Noor M. Shah, claimed that water was flowing according to the quota.
Rafiq Ahmed Memon, superintendent, Nara canal, said a survey was being conducted, which would reveal the actual facts.
CRUSHED TO DEATH: A passerby, M. Panah, son of Aijaz Jatoi, was crushed to death under the wheels of a truck at the Fazo Lara bus stand, near Khanpur, on Friday.
The truck driver fled immediately.
PPP WORKERS: Workers of the PPP, Ghotki District, protested by holding rallies on Saturday against the sacking of Jam Saifullah Dharejo from the PPP ranks.
They termed this action of the provincial PPP chief, Nisar Ahmed Khuro, uncalled for and damaging for the PPP, Ghotki District.
