DADU, Dec 15: The Mehar police on Thursday booked the Taluka Municipal Officer of Mehar and the Dadu Ittehad Panel Naib Nazim of the Qazi Arif Union Council, Mehar taluka, and 12 others on charges of injuring the ADP councillor and four PPP workers and registering false FIRs against PPP activists, about nine days ago.

The action was taken on the directives of the District and Sessions Judge, Dadu, Mr Amir Ali Thari.

The PPP worker Basheer Ahmed Mahessar had filed an application in the court of District and Sessions Judge, Dadu, against the TMO of Mehar, Barkat Memon, Naib Nazim of Qazi Arif union council Basheer Ahmed Chandio, Ghulam Sarwar, Akbar, Younus, Ali Gohar, Dildar, Rasool Bux and 12 others of the Dadu Ittehad Panel.

The complainant stated that the accused had injured him along with the ADP councillor Liaquat Mahessar and PPP workers Masood, Ameer Ahmed and Sarfaraz, when they asked the TMA staff to stop removal of legal constructions on Qazi Arif-Mehar link road, but they refused and injured them and registered a fake FIR against them. The District and Sessions Judge, Amir Ali Thari, directed the Mehar police to lodge an FIR against the naib nazim Bashir Ahmed, TMO Barkat Memon and 12 others of the Dadu Ittehad Panel. The Mehar police registered the case under section 337-F(i), 337-L(2), 337-A(1), 147, 148, 149, 114 PPC against the nominated accused.

PROTEST: A large number of councillors of various union councils of Dadu taluka staged a protest demonstration outside the local press club here on Thursday against the executive engineer, local government department Dadu, for allegedly using substandard material in different roads and drainage schemes of Dadu taluka.

Led by councillors Ghulam Hyder, Dost Ali, Imtiaz Ali, Shahid Ali and Ali Murad, they said that the executive engineer local government department Dadu, Syed Zahid Hussain Shah had constructed main streets of the city including Pir Bux Colony, Advocate Abdul Rasool Abbasi Street, Sikandar Ali Mirani Street, Wadhan Shah Street and drainage schemes in their areas by using substandard material from district government fund. They complained that the concerned engineer had allegedly received 45 per cent commission from contractors and as a result all of the schemes damaged in a short span of time and drains’ water was overflowing on the roads.