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GUJRANWALA, Oct 12: The tehsil city council has decided to recruit 600 sanitary workers on ad hoc basis and purchase waste containers and other machinery to improve sanitation.
This decision was taken at a meeting of the tehsil city council here on Friday which was presided over by tehsil city Naib Nazim Chaudhry Ehsanullah.
Approving of the recruitment and the purchase of machinery, tehsil city Nazim Babu Javed Ahmad directed tehsil city health officials to immediately lift heaps of garbage scattered in streets and bazaars.
The meeting warned all employees of tehsil city council to attend to their offices regularly.
20 BOOKED: Baghbanpura police on Friday booked at least 20 assailants on the charge of attacking a police party and tearing their uniform apart.
It is learnt that a police party led by ASI Muhammad Abbas was patrolling near Awan Chowk by-pass when a motorcycle bearing no number plate passed by them. The police signalled them to stop, but they pressed the accelerator and disappeared in a nearby locality.
Police asked the residents about the whereabouts of the motorcyclists. On their ignorance, the police threatened them with dire consequences. The ‘threat’ infuriated the residents who thrashed the policemen and tore their uniforms apart.
However, no accused has been nominated in the FIR.
STABBED: Four members of a family, including two women, were stabbed and injured on Friday by assailants over a family feud in Ihela Chattha village, Ahmad Nagar.
Mehdi Hassan had contracted first marriage with the sister of Feroze, Aslam and Akram a few years ago. Later, he married the daughter of Manzoor Ahmad of the same village without the consent of his first wife.
On Friday, Mehdi was going to his outhouse along with his father-in-law Manzoor and two sisters-in-law Asima and Rukhsana when brothers of first wife attacked them with knives and axes, injuring them seriously. They were rushed to the local civil hospital where their condition was listed as serious.
Ahmad Nagar police have registered a case and are investigating.
