GUJRANWALA, Aug 13: Some district jail officials and prisoners suffered bruises during their clash over shifting of hardened criminals to separate barracks, here on Wednesday.
The prisoners, according to reports, pelted stones on the jail officials, who had to call in police force to control the situation.
On the orders of DIG (jail) Abdul Sattar, the jail authorities were separating hardened criminals from delinquents when some of the prisoners started pelting stones on them. In a clash that followed, some jail officials and captives suffered bruises.
Meanwhile, captives at the district courts lock-up protested against the police’s refusal to hospitalize their ally Muhammad Akram, who fainted in a bathroom.
The DIG, later, revealed that the inquiry to ascertain the cause of captive Muhammad Aslam’s death was going on, and postmortem report also was still awaited.
NOMINATION PAPERS: Eight aspirants for the slot of the Kamoki tehsil Nazim filed their nomination papers here on Wednesday.
They are Sajjad Ahmad, a brother of Provincial Transport Minister Chaudhry Shamshad Ahmad, Muhammad Nasir, Naseer Ahmad Chattha, Faisal Adnan Sindhu, Muhammad Asghar, Azizur Rahman and two union councils Nazims Ehsanullah and Rana Asif.
TASK FORCE: A special task force comprising senior district administration and police officials has been constituted to control crime and remove encroachments.
Participants at a meeting, presided over by District Coordination Officer Fazeel Asghar, said Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi took notice of growing crime rate and ordered to control it.
RALLY: Activists of the PML-N and PPP will travel to Lahore on Thursday (today) to participate in the ARD rally at the Mochi Gate.
The rally would be led by Punjab PML-N chief organizer and former federal minister Ghulam Dastagir Khan and Punjab PPP president Qasim Zia.
This was stated in separate press releases of the PML-N and PPP issued here on Wednesday.
