OKARA: A police constable was suspended from service for allegedly uploading hate material against some political figures on social media.

Taking notice of a social media post by constable Muhammad Hussain (driver), posted at Ravi police station, District Police Officer (DPO) Muhammad Hasan Iqbal suspended him from service for violating the rules regarding the use of social media.

A departmental inquiry was also initiated against the suspended constable.

BOY CRUSHED: An unidentified boy was crushed to death under the wheels of a train near the city model railway station here on Friday.

According to railway officials the 9-10 years old boy was crossing the railway tracks when the train arrived and he was crushed under its wheels.

The officials said the boy’s identity could not be ascertained.

The railway police shifted the dead body to the district headquarters hospital’s mortuary for its identification.

In another incident, a man standing in the door of a railway coach of a moving train was severely injured when a stone hit his head.

The officials said a passenger, Ijaz Hussain, of Khanewal, was traveling in a Lahore-bound train. They said as the train reached Sheikh Basti near the city model railway station, a stone hit Hussain in his head, who was standing in a coach’s open door, causing a severe injury.

Because of the incident, the train was halted before reaching the city station and railway police shifted the injured passenger to the DHQ hospital.

Published in Dawn, July 16th, 2022