BAHAWALPUR: The Multan Electric Power Company (Mepco) administration has forcibly retired the additional manager (MIS) computer centre at Rahim Yar Khan on the charge of harassment of women employees.

A press release says the women employees of the RYK computer centre filed a complaint of sexual harassment against Additional Manager Muhammad Ali.

Mepco PRO Jamshed Khan Niazi told Dawn that after the receipt of the complaint, the additional manager was suspended from service and an inquiry launched to ascertain the facts. He had now been forcibly retired after the committee found him guilty, said the PRO.

CRACKDOWN ON BEGGARS: The district police have begun crackdown on beggars and arrested 25 of them on the first day.

According to DPO Muhammad Faisal Kamran, an anti-begging squad has been formed to take action against the professional beggars across the district. He said 25 beggars had been lodged in a police lockup.

He said the members of the police squad in coordination with the district administration officials would crack down on the beggars at traffic signals, intersections and highways in the Ahmedpur East, Channigoth, Uch Sharif and Hasilpur police jurisdictions.

Meanwhile, the Cantonment police have arrested another drug trafficker, Abdul Latif, and recovered 340 gram ice and eight gram charas from him. Police claimed to have recovered Rs400,000 from the trafficker.

FARE CONCESSION: Deputy Commissioner Irfan Ali Kathiya has directed the officials to ensure the implementation of government’s decision regarding 50pc concession in the fares to the special persons using the private transport.

Presiding over a meeting of the district committee for special persons, the DC asked his subordinates to display big banners and panaflexes of concession in fares at bus and wagon stands so that the transport operators could not refuse it.

Published in Dawn, September 16th, 2021