CHINIOT: A man was arrested on Wednesday for text messaging to the police about planting of bombs in tehsil offices which turned out to be a hoax.

Reports said the Lalian station house officer received a text message from the sender at 10am that he had planted bombs in tehsil offices that would go off at 11am.

The information was immediately brought to the notice of the district police chief. Later, the police and the district administration combed the buildings with the help of the bomb disposal squad, but they found no explosive devices and declared the tehsil offices cleared.

A police team later arrested the sender of hoax text message who was identified as Jamshed of Wanoka village. Police have started investigating about the motive behind sending the text message.

FALSE KIDNAP STORY: Another story of a boy kidnapping turned out to be false here on Wednesday.

A 14-year-old boy, Arshad, of Daska, reached the DPO office and told officials that he was kidnapped by some men a few days back. He said the kidnappers forced him to work at a furniture workshop in Chiniot. He requested the police to send him back to his parents and also arrest his captors.

However, the boy failed to lead a police party to the alleged furniture workshop. The Sialkot police traced boy’s father who told the Chiniot police on phone that he had sent his son to learn the furniture-making work and that there was no truth in the kidnapping story.

The boy admitted that he was telling a lie because he did not want to work and desired to return home. The father was asked to collect his son from Chiniot.

Published in Dawn, August 25th, 2016