Robbers target 15 houses in a night

Published October 23, 2005

NAROWAL, Oct 22: Seven armed bandits looted fifteen houses in Kakeke village on Friday night. Reports said the bandits entered the houses one by one by scaling their walls and looted cash and valuables worth thousands of rupees after taking the inmates hostages at gun point. The dacoits tied the inmates with ropes before they left at dawn.

The victims include thefamilies of Younis, Muhammad Husain, Ghulam Ali, Khair Din, Sadar Din, Hameed, Anwar, Han Muhammad and Ramazan. Sadar police are investigating but no case has been registered so far.

PROTEST: Students and parents have expressed their concern over policy violation for third year admissions in the Muslim Girls College.

They also condemned the collage principal’s behaviour, alleging she had admitted many girls without observing the merit.

They further alleged that the clerical staff had prepared fake certificates for many girls to bring them on merit list.

They appealed to Punjab Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi and DCO to order a probe into the matter and a stern action against the principal and other staff if found guilty of violating merit.

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