CHINIOT: A man was arrested on Tuesday for beating his mother and stealing her gold and cash.

The city police arrested Liaqat Ali, of Gulistan Colony, under Section 380 of the Pakistan Penal Code and Protection of Parents Ordinance, 2021 on the application of his mother.

Musarrat Bibi stated in the FIR that she brought up her son, Liaqat, by working as a domestic help as her husband was jobless. After marriage, Liaqat often tortured her on the instigation of his wife.

When she went out of the house to get fodder for her buffalo, the couple took away five-tola gold ornaments from her box. On her query, he attacked her with bricks which hit her legs and she got injuries.

The city police registered a case and started investigation.

INJURED: Six people were injured when a bus and sugarcane loaded tractor-trolley collided head-on near Bhowana’s Nalka Adda, 40km from Chiniot.

The injured included Abdul Sattar, Shamshad, Haji Liaqat, Abuzar, Younas and Mudassar and were being treated in the Bhowana Tehsil Headquarters Hospital.

Published in Dawn, November 24th, 2021