OKARA: Officials of the Municipal Corporation and police on Sunday enforced lockdown by not allowing the shopkeepers to open their businesses.

There was rush in almost every market and traders set up Eid-specific makeshift stalls in front of the shops. A team led by MC Chief Officer Fida Mir and police had the shops and stalls closed. They also briefly arrested six or seven traders.

Markazi Anjuman-i-Tajran general secretary Sheikh Riaz Anwar told this correspondent that shopkeepers and workers had been facing a crunch time and were desperate to open shops.

BRIBE CASE: A traffic police ASI was nabbed by a team of the Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) taking bribe from a person with a promise to provide him job.

ASI Ghulam Sabir took Rs50,000 from complainant Jabbar Ahmad to facilitate his nephew in having a low-scale job in traffic police but later he demanded Rs10,000 more. The ACE circle officer, along with a team and special magistrate, nabbed the ASI.

A case was registered under section 161 of PPC and section 5-2/ 1947 of the Prohibition of Corruption Act.

Published in Dawn, May 4th, 2020