SHEIKHUPURA, Oct 21: Twelve students of a local government college were sent on judicial remand here on Tuesday, after the A-Division police registered cases against them under Sections 427, 382, 354, 153, 148, 149, 16-MPO and 7-A of the Anti-Terrorism Act on the complaint of DHQ MS Captain Dr Shabir Hussain.

The parliamentary secretary for health, Dr Farzana Nazir, said on a visit here that ransacking public property was condemnable. If the students had grievances against the MS or any other doctor they should have lodged complaints with the district Nazim or the DCO, she said.

The college principal, Prof Ghulam Rasool Azad, said the students against whom cases had been registered would be rusticated.

District Nazim Chaudhry Tawakal Ullah Virk said: “Students are our sons. If they had some problem, they should have come to me instead of taking law in their hands.”

Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) officer-bearers, led by president Yousaf Kazmi, held a demonstration to protest against what they described as hooliganism of student at the DHQ hospital.

The MS said that an inquiry team of four seniors doctors had been formed to ascertain the facts.

Meanwhile, registration of cases against students is being condemned in social and religious circles. The MS, sources alleged, had got the cases registered to conceal the mismanagement and deteriorating state of services at the DHQ hospital and conceal negligence of the doctors, who remained absent from duty and preferred to examine patients in their private clinics.

Umer Farooq of Jandiala Sher Khan College died at the DHQ hospital on Sunday after a road accident on Friday. He allegedly died due to negligence of doctors. Infuriated students ransacked the hospital on Monday.