TOBA TEK SINGH: A robbery suspect was injured in an alleged encounter with Gojra City police on Saturday.
The spokesperson for district police said three suspects intercepted Bilawal Khokhar of Chak 366-JB on Gojra-Dijkot Road near Defence View locality and snatched Rs100,000 cash from him. On receiving a call, police reached the spot and found the suspects. On seeing police, the suspects opened indiscriminate fire, resulting in injuries to one of them. The injured was later identified as Bilal Akram of Islampura, Gojra.
The other two suspects managed to escape. The injured suspect was rushed to the Gojra Tehsil Headquarters Hospital where the doctors referred him to the Faisalabad Allied Hospital.
BAIL: The pre-arrest bail of one of the female accused in BDS student Khadija Ghafoor kidnap and torture case, Anna Ali, the daughter of main accused Sheikh Danish Ali, was extended till Sept 10 in two separate cases by two separate courts.
Faisalabad Additional District and Sessions Judge Haider Ali Arif extended Ms Ali’s bail before arrest. She was previously granted bail till Sept 3, accepting her plea that she was from main accused Danish Ali’s first wife, Zara Sarfraz, who had filed dissolution of marriage suit with an Islamabad court against her father. On the day of the incident, she was not at Faisalabad but was with her real mother, Zara Sarfraz, in Islamabad.
In another case registered by FIA regarding making of video of the torture of Khadija, another additional district and sessions judge dealing FIA cases also extended Anna Ali’s bail before arrest till Sept 10.
Published in Dawn, September 4th, 2022
