GUJRANWALA: A youth strangled his parents and injured his two siblings over the money he wanted for going abroad in Viniawala village, Aroop Town, on Friday.

Qamar Islam was jobless and wanted to go abroad. He demanded money from his father, Muhammad Islam, a vegetable vendor, who expressed his inability to provide the required amount and advised his son to work in the city. At this, Qamar quarrelled with his father.

At night, when his father and mother Dil Ara were asleep in their room, Qamar, abetted by his friend Raees Ahmad, strangled both of them.

When his brother Umer Islam and sister Sana came to rescue their parents, the suspects attacked them with knives and injured them.

The locals gathered after hearing a hue and cry of the injured and locked the suspects in a room before informing police. Both the suspects were arrested and police recovered Rs40,000 cash from them which they had collected from the house after murders.

The Civil Lines superintendent of police said a case had been registered against the suspects.

Court cases

Anti-Terrorism Court No 1 judge Imtiaz Ahmad dismissed on Friday the bail application of two accused, Wajahat and Iftikhar, who were allegedly involved in the murder of seven people of Gujrat.

According to the prosecution, the accused had shot dead Umer Hayat and six members of his family over an old enmity in Dinga Gujrat.

The same court accepted the bail application of an activist of the Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) and ordered to release him.

Ghakkhar Town police had arrested Muhammad Saeed on charges of attacking police officials at Sadhoki on GT Road during PTI’s long march in August.

In another case, the sessions court awarded life term and 14-year jail to two drug smugglers in two separate cases.

The prosecution said Jinnah Road police had arrested convict Shehzad and seized 25kg hashish from his possession in 2010.

While Model Town police had arrested Imran the same year and recovered a huge quantity of heroin and other narcotics from his possession.

The additional sessions judge Tariq Javed handed down life term to Shehzad and 14 years imprisonment to Imran.

Released

As many as 114 prisoners of the Central Jail involved in petty cases were released by the district and

sessions judge during his visit to the jail. Judge Sardar Ahmad Naeem visited the jail along with his colleagues and got the list of prisoners involved in minor cases.

He ordered the release of these prisoners, advising them to avoid criminal activities in future.

He also checked the jail kitchen, hospital and various barracks, including the juvenile and women barracks, and checked security arrangements. He directed the jail authorities to provide better facilities to the inmates in accordance with the jail manual. The jail superintendent and other officers were accompanied him.

Strike

The district bar association observed a strike on Friday to press for their demand for a separate bench of the Lahore High Court in Gujranwala and the lawyers boycotted the court proceedings.

Bar president Ahwer Tufail said the strike would continue on Saturday (today).

Published in Dawn, November 1st , 2014