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GUJRANWALA, July 5: Three employees at an electronics shop suffered burns when a gas cylinder exploded here on Saturday.
According to reports, Muhammad Pervez, Muhammad Saif and Muhammad Anwar were working at their shop on the Sialkot Road when a gas cylinder exploded. They were injured and taken to the District Headquarters Hospital where doctors referred Pervez to the Mayo Hospital, Lahore, because of his precarious condition. Valuables at the shop were laid to ashes.
HEARING: Anti-Terrorism Court No 2 continued hearing of PPP district president and his guards’ murder case at the central jail on Saturday.
The Sabzi Mandi police informed the court that the main accused of Chaudhry Khalid Humayun’s killing had been arrested in Karachi and was being interrogated.
The judge, Mirza Rafiuddin, ordered that the accused should be produced in court on the next hearing on July 16.
RESENTMENT: The Pakistan Medical Association’s local chapter has expressed resentment on not setting up a medical college in the district.
Convening a meeting here on Saturday, the association demanded that a medical college and nuclear medical centre be established here. It also called for increase in strength of the medical officers at the District Headquarters Hospital.
PMA district president Dr Ishtiaq Safdar Tarar presided over the meeting in which the participants suggested that a PMA delegation should meet the Punjab chief minister during his visit here to put forward the demands.
IMPRISONMENT: A local court awarded on Saturday 20-year imprisonment and Rs50,000 fine to a man convicted of kidnapping and sodomising a school-going boy.
The convict will have to undergo two-year rigorous imprisonment in case of default.
According to the prosecution, the convict kidnapped Ali Raza, a primary school student, and sodomised him at gunpoint at Kamoki on Oct 7, 2002.
CHIEF MINISTER: Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervez Elahi is due in the district on Sunday (today). He will address a gathering at Liaquat Bagh.
The district government has finalized arrangements to welcome the chief minister.
