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GUJRANWALA, Dec 21: Members of a Wapda raiding team were thrashed and held hostage by power thieves on Sunday in Gunaur village in Wahando.
The team of sub-division No 3, Kamoki, raided the house of Khushi Muhammad and found him stealing electricity from the main transmission line. The raiding team removed his meter and recovered electricity wire and other equipment.
In the meantime, Khushi, his sons Allah Rakha, Bilal, Saleem and other villagers gathered there and started thrashing members of the raiding team. Later, they held them hostage and had the power connection restored. After receiving information, the SDO reached there and got members of the raiding team released.
Wahando police have registered a case against Khushi, his sons about a dozen villagers and are investigating.
BENEFICIAL: The district government system is beneficial to the people for their problems are being resolved at a grass roots level by the elected representatives.
This was stated by City Tehsil Council Nazim Babu Javed Ahmad and union council Naib Nazims while speaking at a seminar on the Local Government System here on Sunday.
They said that the provision of education, health, drinking water, sewerage and construction of streets and roads were main problems of people which were being resolved at the union council level through elected representatives.
They lauded the National Reconstruction Bureau (NRB) for promoting the district government system and resolving problems of the people through provincial governments.
LOOTED: Bandits looted two houses and injured a man on resistance in two different strikes in Satellite Town here on Sunday.
Four masked dacoits entered the house of Qari Ghulam Rasul by scaling its boundary wall. They held the inmates hostage, locked them in a room and collected Rs25,000 in cash, 25 tolas of gold, a mobile phone and other valuables. They manhandled and injured the house owner on resistance. The intruders also thrashed his wife for raising hue and cry.
Later, the outlaws entered an adjacent house of Muhammad Sadiq and at gunpoint scooped Rs10,000 in cash, ornaments worth Rs80,000 and beat up Sadiq for holding them out. The bandits escaped from the scene when the area people gathered there.
Police have registered cases and are investigating.
SUICIDE: A woman committed suicide on Sunday by taking poisonous pills in Garjakh.
Naseem Bibi fell out with her husband Aslam. She died on way to the local DHQ Hospital.
