GUJRANWALA: The heirs to a motorcycle-rickshaw driver blocked Sialkot Road near Fatumand Chowk on Saturday when police did not hand over the body to them and also refused to identify his grave.

Muhammad Fayyaz, of Mukhtar Colony, told reporters his brother, Taj Din, went missing two days ago. When called, Taj told him that police officials had stopped him and demanded bribe as he did not have vehicle’s documents. Later on, his cell phone went off.

Fayyaz said now with the help of the media they had come to know that Tajdin had been murdered while his body was found in the jurisdiction of Francesabad police chowki, Sadar police station.

He alleged the chowki in charge told him that Taj had been buried but his grave could not be identified.

Fayyaz alleged that his brother had been murdered by the police.

City Superintendent of Police Salim Sadiq arrived at the scene and negotiated with the protesters. He persuaded them to end blockade while he took Fayyaz with him.

STRANGLED: A divorced woman was allegedly strangled by her father and brother-in-law in Nawab Chowk.

Police said 22-year-old ‘S’ was divorced over a family dispute. Being not happy over the development, her father Muhammad Aslam Ghauri along with his son-in-law Khalid Mahmood killed her.

Aalam Chowk post In Charge Sub-Inspector Masood Ahmad said they were busy burying the body when police were alerted. He said police were after the suspects. Also, Moazzam gagged and killed eight-year-old Tehmina in village Baddoki Gosaian when she made a noise when he was trying to assault her elder sister.

Cantonment police registered a case.

METRO: Traders and civil society activists have demanded that the Punjab government launch metro bus from Gujrat to Kamoki on GT Road.

Markzi Anjuman Tajran President Fazlur Rehman Babar Khurrana, traders Hakim Fayyaz and Shabbir Ahmad Mughal, social worker Engineer Shahbaz Ahmad and private school owner Malik Fareed said the project should be launched in Gujranwala for being its industrial city status.

They said hundreds of people travel from Kamoki to Gujrat for their jobs and business on public buses which consume their money and time.

Published in Dawn, May 25th, 2014