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SIALKOT, Aug 19: Lawyers on Tuesday boycotted courts in protest against keeping the son of district Bar president in illegal custody by Naikapura police and misbehaviour of SHO with him.
They held an emergency meeting and strongly condemned the highhandedness of Naikapura police and misbehaviour of SHO Sub-Inspector Sajid Nazir.
It is reported that the Naikapura police station SHO and other police officials kidnapped Muneeb, the son of DBA president Munawar Warriach and detained him in the police station two days ago. When Mr Warriach and other Bar members went to the Naikapura police station, the SHO and other police officials misbehaved with them.
Mr Warriach later told newsmen that his son was taken into custody when he was on his way home along with the family members by his car. The car was stopped at a picket and police demanded driving licence from him. He gave him his driving licence and introduced himself. On this, the SHO and his subordinate staff became infuriated, dragged him out of the car and took him to the Naikapura police station. They beat and abused him.
He claimed that police nabbed his son to ‘teach’ him a lesson as he disclosed incompetence of police being an eyewitness to the Sialkot jail shootout on July 25.
Meanwhile, the Sialkot DPO took serious view of the incident and suspended the SHO from service with immediate effect.
UPLIFT SCHEMES: The Punjab government has approved Rs1 billion worth development projects for Pasrur tehsil.
This was stated by MNA Zahid Hamid while addressing a public gathering at Pasrur on Tuesday.
He said Rs100 million would be spent on the provision of gas to Chawinda and Pasrur, Rs160 million on reconstructing of Pasrur-Sialkot road and Rs20 million on the provision of sewerage and drainage facility in Pasrur city.
A cadet college would be set up in Pasrur at a cost of Rs200 million.
The MNA said Sialkot district government would provide a special grant of Rs50 million to Pasrur tehsil’s union councils for early completion of public welfare schemes.
DENIED INCREMENTS: More than 35,000 teachers of science and mathematics in the Punjab have been denied annual increments for the past three years, according to a press release issued on Tuesday.
A teachers’ association of the Daska tehsil said the government was ignoring the problems the teachers had been facing for many years.
They said over 35,000 science and mathematics teachers were appointed by the Punjab government in September 2000, but they had been denied annual increments ever since.
