TOBA TEK SINGH: A fake gold coins seller looted a resident of Lahore here in Gojra on Wednesday.

According to Gojra Saddar police, complainant Muhammad Kamran Khan of Gulberg, Lahore stated in his first information report that a man, who introduced himself as Muhammad Imran, contacted him and offered to sell him antique gold coins that he claimed to have found during excavation of earth in a Gojra village.

Khan added that when he reached Gojra at Moongi Bangla, the suspect snatched Rs350,000 from him at gunpoint and fled from the scene. Police were investigating.

In the last few years, several people from various cities have been looted through similar fraudulent schemes of selling antique coins by a gang in Gojra, and several cases had been registered against unidentified persons in Gojra Saddar and City police stations.

SCHOOL WALL: The boundary wall of a government elementary school in the Punjab governor’s village of Chak 191-GB Makdooman Wala is finally being built on self-help basis.

Villagers said that the school was established some 60 years ago, but governments never provided funds for the construction of its boundary wall.

On the request of the villagers, Governor Chaudhry Sarwar had provided Rs100,000 from his own pocket for the construction of a 190-foot-long and 10-foot-high wall. The remaining money to be spent on the wall had been donated by parents of students.

Published in Dawn, November 21st, 2019