BAHAWALPUR: A local court on Tuesday remanded a blasphemy suspect in judicial custody.

Earlier on Monday, the Saddar police claimed to have arrested a woman blasphemy suspect under section 295-B from Madina colony on Multan road.

The police registered a first information report on the complaint of Muhammad Yaseen and arrested her.

The complainant alleged that on hearing some noise outside his house in the street, he along with his brothers rushed to his neighbour Muhammad Azam’s house and they noticed that his wife allegedly tried to burn the pages of Holy Quran by putting them in a silver utensil which was put on a gas cylinder.

He and other witnesses attempted to stop her while other women overpowered her and called police 15. She was handed over to the police.

PRO Umar Saleem told Dawn that the suspect was sent on judicial remand by the court on Tuesday.

FOUND DEAD: The Yazman city police claimed on Tuesday to have recovered the body of a minor girl who went missing mysteriously from her house on Aug 21.

According to the PRO, city police after Irum (7) went missing, had registered an abduction case under sections 340/23 on the complaint of her mother. After the registration of the case, DPO Syed Muhammad Abbas formed a special investigating team comprising DSP Yazman and others.

The team besides taking into custody a number of suspects also checked her movement with the help of CCTV cameras and other latest technology but the whereabouts of the girl could not be traced.

On Tuesday, the police recovered her body from Bhatta colony, Yazman, and shifted it to THQ hospital for postmortem examination.

Meanwhile, the police amended the earlier first information report No.340/23 into murder FIR under section 302 of Pakistan Penal Code with no arrest so far.

FLOOD: As many as 325 villages and standing crops in vast areas have been hit by the Sutlej flood in Lodhran district.

This was stated by Lodhran Deputy Commissioner Abdul Rauf Mahar in a briefing he gave to two provincial caretaker ministers S.M Tanveer and Bilal Afzal during their visit to the flood-affected areas in the district.

Published in Dawn, September 6th, 2023