TOBA TEK SINGH: The Gojra City police on Tuesday registered a case against Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) MPA Chaudhry Bilal Asghar Warraich for abetting the suspects in a double murder case.

Two persons were killed in Gojra the other day allegedly by eight people, four of them identified in the first information report (FIR), registered under various sections of the Pakistan Penal Code.

Complainant Saifullah of Bihari Colony, Gojra, told the police that his brother, Aziz Ahmad, and his friend, Rana Iqbal, were sitting at a tea stall outside the cattle market on Gojra-Jhang road on Monday night when eight people, including Umer Asghar of Chak 364-JB, Shafiq Wahla of Altaf Colony and Ali Muhammad Jatt and Sajid Insari of Bihari Colony, appeared on two motorcycles and a car. They opened indiscriminate fire on Aziz and Iqbal, injuring them critically.

The injured were rushed to the Gojra Tehsil Headquarters Hospital where the doctors referred them to the Faisalabad Allied Hospital. Both of them succumbed to their wounds on the way to Faisalabad.

The complainant said the attackers shouted that they were taking revenge as Aziz and Iqbal had arranged bail of one Qaiser Aziz, an accused in the murder case of Umair Asghar, brother of Umer Asghar who was killed in an attack on the house of MPA Chaudhry Bilal Asghar Warraich on April 1.

The complainant said MPA Warraich had abetted the attackers in committing the murders.

Published in Dawn, August 21st, 2019