OKARA: A woman lawyer was allegedly tortured on the premises of the Dipalpur Tehsil Courts allegedly by a male lawyer at the behest of her father who wanted to grab her land.
As per the first information report (FIR), Advocate Nadia Ashraf had an agriculture land dispute with her father Muhammad Ashraf as she had refused to give her land to him (father). On Thursday, when she was going to the court of the judicial magistrate, she was attacked by Advocate Abdur Razzaq who was allegedly armed near the Kutchery Mosque who pushed Nadia on ground and inflicted weapon blows on her body, the report said.
Nadia’s niqab went off and she received injuries to her body.
During the incident, her father kept instigating Advocate Razzaq to teach Nadia a lesson for not giving him her land. Seeing the scene, other lawyers and people gathered at the spot and both the suspects disappeared from the scene.
Later, Nadia received a medicolegal certificate from hospital and got registered a case against Advocate Razzaq and her father Ashraf with the Dipalpur City Police Station.
SHOT DEAD: A man and a robber were shot dead during a house robbery in suburbs of village Batak near Basirpur.
According to the FIR, registered on complaint of one Shahbaz, the complainant’s family members were sleeping in the rooms and the courtyard. At midnight, six armed men scaled boundary wall of the house and jumped into the courtyard. They started beating Shahbaz’s son Ijaz and his wife. When they raised a hue and cry, the suspects opened fire and bullets hit Ijaz who was killed on the spot.
Seeing the situation, the criminals took away Rs10,000 and the computerised national identity card from the pocket of Ijaz. They escaped while firing in the air and a bullet hit their accomplice who died on the spot. The suspects fled, leaving the body of their accomplice behind.
The police rushed to the spot on receiving a call and shifted both the bodies to hospital.
On the report of victim Ijaz’s brother Shahbaz, Basirpur police registered a case.
Published in Dawn, April 1st, 2022
