TOBA TEK SINGH: Gojra Saddar police on Sunday booked more than 80 people on Sunday for holding two kabaddi matches without permission in two villages where the Covid-19 standard operating procedures (SOPs) were also violated.

In the first information report (FIR), registered on complainant of Gojra Saddar Assistant Sub-Inspector Shahbaz Ahmad under sections of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) and the Punjab Sound Systems Regulation (PSSRA) Act, 2015, the complainant reported that a kabaddi tournament was being held in Chak 163/GB without prior permission from the authorities and the SOPs were violated.

When police raided the venue to stop the event, 33 nominated and 20 unidentified suspects attacked the policemen.

They got one of the arrested suspects freed, snatched three mobile phones from the policemen, scuffled with them and forcibly unloaded the sound system and laptops from police van, which police had confiscated. The suspects took the police personnel hostage.

Another FIR was registered by same the same complainant against 30 nominated and several unidentified people for unlawfully holding kabaddi tournament at Chak 180/GB and violating SOPs.

The suspects included three lumberdars of different villages. No arrest has been made so far.

SUICIDE: A man allegedly committed suicide at Gojra over financial constraints.

Rescue 1122 reported that Tariq Bashir (52), a resident of Tariqabad, Faisalabad, had come to see his relatives in Gojra.

He hid in the bushes and as soon as the Karachi-bound Shalimar Express reached there, he jumped before it. He received critical injuries. Rescue 1122 shifted him to Gojra Tehsil Headquarters Hospital where he succumbed to injuries.

ROBBERIES: Robbers deprived a car-riding family of cash and valuables near the Government Commerce College, Gojra, on Gojra-Toba road in the early hours on Sunday.

Chaudhry Muhammad Zahid of Toba informed police that he was returning to his home from Gojra when his car broke down. He was examining the vehicle when two armed motorcyclists reached there and snatched Rs20,000 from him, gold ornaments from his wife and two mobile phones.

In another incident, two armed motorcyclists robbed an iron store on Gojra-Faisalabad road at Adda Dawakhri.

The robbers took the owner, Mudassar Iqbal, and the customers hostage and snatched cash worth hundreds of thousands of rupees and mobile phones from all of them.

Published in Dawn, October 5th, 2020