TOBA TEK SINGH: Veiled women entered different houses in the city in the groups of three or four on Monday with an excuse to find their lost child and looted valuables from one house.

Divisional Public School Headmaster Tahir Pervaiz informed the Toba Tek Singh City police that the gang broke into his house in Sarhand Colony and after holding the family hostage at gunpoint, the intruders looted away gold ornaments and cash worth hundreds of thousands of rupees.

Police followed the gang but failed to trace them.

Once such group also entered the house of former councillor Mahboob Ali Sani but failed to strike.

Such three to four groups remained active in the city on Monday.

MURDERED: A 17-old-girl was murdered at her home on Monday by two unidentified persons in Gojra.

Saddar police said both the accused arrived at the house of Munawwar Ahmad Kahloon in Chak 425-JB, Wahlianwala, on a motorcycle and forced their entry into the house.

They fired indiscriminately leaving Aqsa Bibi, daughter of Munawwar, injured seriously.

She was rushed to the Gojra Tehsil Headquarters Hospital where doctors referred her to Faisalabad Allied Hospital but she succumbed to her wounds there.

Villagers told reporters that her father had an enmity while her brother Babar Kahloon was wanted by police in a case and was declared proclaimed offender.

RAPE: A youth allegedly raped a seven-year-old girl of his village in Chak 150-GB on Monday.

Rajana police said the minor girl was playing outside her house when the accused lured her into his house on the same street where he raped her.

Rescue 1122 shifted the girl to the Rajana rural health centre.

Police registered a case and arrested the accused.

DIRECTIVE: Faisalabad Regional Police Officer (RPO) Bilal Siddiq Kamyana directed on Monday Toba Tek Singh District Police Officer Usman Akram Gondal to issue a notice to Saddar Station House Officer Qasim Ali for conducting flawed investigation into a case.

During a visit to Toba Tek Singh, the RPO asked the police officers to arrest proclaimed offenders at the earliest.

He also inspected the Gojra Saddar police station record.

CTD: A Counter-Terrorism Department team raided on Monday a house in Bakhshi Park and arrested Areez Amjad, an activist of a banned religious outfit.

Published in Dawn, October 18th, 2016